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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Maybe I should move to Europe. You guys are clearly my people regarding sports. To an outsider it must look like Ameican parents are all trying to create little circus performers. The people I know who have always loved sports and encouraged their children in time-intensive sports are also generally very competitive about everything. They can turn the PTA into a competition, or the size of their house, or how many A's their child gets. Competitive sports is just a great way of getting routine affirmation if you are a very competitive person who needs it. This has nothing to do with people who run or swim or hike for exercise. If you really think you or your child does a competitive sport just for fun, imagine it without the scores or rankings. If you don't still want to do it, I don't think you're in it for the fun. [/quote]

Well, I don't love sports and was terrible at them, but I do encourage my son to play rec soccer.  He's made friends through the team, he's getting exercise, and if he weren't there, he'd be jumping on the couch or putting his excess energy to some other negative use.  He's not a particularly good player, but not terrible either.  We don't expect or want him to move up to travel soccer, and are genuinely just in it for fun.  [/quote]

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