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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting this in sports forum because I think it belongs here.

My kids are as competitive as they come, doing travel sports, and generally very involved in their sports. So I get it. But I am finding more and more that parents have their kids skip out on birthday parties for local tournaments. Or missing the slumber party portion because they want their kids to be ready to compete the next day. They respond immediately to an invitation before the kids are even home from school, so the parents are making the choices.

To what end? These are simply local tournaments, and there will be another one next weekend. How sad that these competitions trump absolutely everything. [/quote]

My kids are at the age where these things are smaller affairs though one of my kids just received an all class invite to a birthday party. In the smaller affairs (3-4 kids), most of the parents have kids on travel teams there has generally been some effort to coordinate when to have these. Sometimes it doesn't work and life goes on. But, yeah - 1 PM on a Saturday afternoon...yeah, it is likely not going to happen - late. It isn't only the invited kid but I have 2 others that play travel sports and me or my wife are running them around. Early evenings when things wind down are more open. For larger events, I've always said, don't plan around us, if we can make it, we will, if we can't, we can't.

Also, not to sound condescending but there are times when someone invites my kid to a birthday party and they aren't as close as the invitor thinks, we use sports as an excuse not to go.[/quote]

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