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I think it's OK to encourage your DS or DS to participate on a sports team, and to try their best.  My DH and I attended a middle school and a high school that required sports participation, which is true at a lot of private schools.  I like this because I think that it's good to push kids a bit out of their comfort zone.

At least for my kids, if we did not push them a little bit, they would prefer to watch TV, play video games, or scroll on their phones.

So I think it's good of all kids participate in a sport, if only to keep them busy and off of their devices.

My DD and DS both did competitive swimming on a club team, and in high school.  My DH and I were just happy that our kids were decent enough swimmers to be on the team.

I don't necessarily think it's an American thing to push your kids in sports.  At least in swimming, I thought it was mostly the immigrant parents who were really pushing their kids.  I was once a timer in a race of 9-10's.  I saw a kid get out of the pool after the race.  His mom was a timer standing in the lane next to me.  After she saw his time, she told her son (in broken English) "You need to do better!"  At the time, I remember thinking that there is no way that I could say that to my kids, as many American kids would reject that or refuse to tolerate that from their parents.[/quote]

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