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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see some parents are comparing travel sports to other non-sport extracurriculars.  Can someone share what non-sport extracurricular activities cost as much as travel sports, requires as much time from the parents, and puts as much stress on kids' bodies?[/quote]

I have a kid who did children’s theater for years and a kid who did travel soccer and theater was a lot worse. Parents were nastier, rehearsal schedules much more intense than the travel soccer, and the parent volunteer stagehand requirements were far more than anything I saw in travel soccer. Cost was about equivalent. [/quote]

Where?

I have a kid who has done several community theater productions and not my experience at all.  There is no fee to participate.  You can donate but it's sincerely not required.  Rehearsal schedules are intense for tech weeks and during performance time.  That's a couple weeks.  And couldn't find a less nasty group of people  What is there to be nasty about?  Are people heckling during the performances?  Pretty minimal volunteer requirements too.  Typically kids do all of the stagehand and crew work.  The tech crew kids are a whole other thing in theater from the performers and a lot of kids do this.[/quote]

Youth theater company. Cost-wise, about the same cost as travel soccer. I think recreational community theater is more like rec sports, so you might not have encountered the same thing. The nastiness was based on kids looks, which was horrifying to hear. We were expected to put a lot of time into set volunteering and backstage management, far more than I did with travel soccer.

That having been said, my friend with a kid in a competitive ballet academy puts my theater stories to shame. OMG. Ballet parents are vicious. [/quote]

What is a youth theater company?  Did your kid get a paycheck?  
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