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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never have introduced my oldest to travel hockey.  I think any sport but hockey would've been less expensive and less of a time suck.  I would've worked even less and had more time with my kids.  I would've gone on more epic family vacations instead of travel sports.  [/quote]

Travel sports of any kind are a time suck.  And they're really not fair to siblings who you often have to drag along to events with the participant.  And for what?  The overwhelming majority of participants end up doing nothing with their sport.

Having said that, what do you do when you have a kid who is just really into the sport and really wants to do it, regardless of how good they actually are?  [/quote]

I'm the original poster on this issue, and that's why I said I would never have introduced hockey.  We wouldn't have taken them to any NHL games.  It was my own fault - I let them try a learn to skate class, then they saw hockey, and I was like, sure, why not?  Now I know.  Travel hockey is extra bad because most of the travel requires flights and missed school, the gear smells absolutely awful, Americans can't keep up anymore and so playing in college is totally unrealistic,  the ice time is at terrible hours and you have to account for getting to the rink 30 minutes early to warm up and gear up and leaving 15 minutes after practice for them to have time to get all their gear off and joke around in the locker room.  It just wasn't worth it.  They would've been just as happy playing lacrosse or basketball if we had never set foot in a learn-to-skate class.  [/quote]

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