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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is parenting or sports related but I think it goes here...
10-year-old just started playing a travel sport (late add to a team) and we've been doing tournaments most every weekend.  They're "local" but involve an hour or so drive.  Kid loves it, and I love watching kid play...but I began to wonder if they're able to keep this up year after year after year.  Don't the kids..and the parents..go insane with this kind of schedule?   We have friends whose kids started at age 8.  How do they keep it up for 10 years???

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Back to the original question, you may or may not have to keep it up. Some kids quit travel, not always due to burn out, sometimes interests change or their skills don't progress enough. 
A tournament every weekend sounds like a lot and I would hope that's not year round. 
I didn't grow up this way but after seven years I've learned to appreciate the time and mutual interests we all share. As well as the life lessons any extracurricular commitment teaches.
We've always made clear as long as school didn't suffer and they put in the effort and had the drive we'd support them. Every year we talk as a family about accepting a team offer, it's both time and money and we're in if they're in.
Maybe I sleep a little less or don't read as many books as I'd like, but I can see that time is short and those books can wait. When your teenager still asks to sleep in their uniform so they can be ready faster for an early game, it's hard not to support their passion. 
I don't think my kids will go D1 and we'll never make back the money spent, no one is living vicariously over here. But I don't think I'll regret this time, long car rides, weird hotels, getting to know other parents and kids...I think I'll miss it when it ends.
To each their own.
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