Anonymous wrote:Admit it, you were short and weak and they were sparing you from joining something you wouldn't be good at. A natural athlete would have found sports without needing a formal introduction.

Maybe I was weak, but I was 6’0” in high school.

Haha.

My child's seriously injury was from slipping on wet leaves when walking, despite playing 2 sports.

Sports allow children to being active and social.

I was a serious ballet dancer growing up and had many more serious injuries than my child.

I know musicians with overuse injuries.

Injuries happen.
Accidents happen.

This is a very unique post.

Admit it, you were short and weak and they were sparing you from joining something you wouldn't be good at. A natural athlete would have found sports without needing a formal introduction.

This is a ridiculous question. Perhaps parents should not let their kids learn to drive because they might get involved in a car accident which could result in thousands of dollars of medical expenses.

Best to let them sit at home on a couch playing video games with strangers around the world. No injuries there.

Anonymous wrote:We didn't let our DC play contact sports. It's not worth the long term joint injuries and concussions.

You can still screw up your joints from tennis, basketball, and baseball

We didn't let our DC play contact sports. It's not worth the long term joint injuries and concussions.

If your parents have good jobs they have good health insurance and therefore the injuries don't cost much money. Time to rehab a torn ACL or rest and heal from a concussion is the biggest challenge, not the $$

Anonymous wrote:Guess when both of my high level athletes got hurt?

We were very lucky, not once in their actual sports.

I had a number of serious sports injuries and coached gymnastics, and this concern never crossed my mind.

I wish I had your genes. I got injured just from causal jogging

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Injuries are common in sports, and my parents never let me play because they don’t want to be on the hook for thousands of dollars of medical expenses if I do get injured. And most doctors suck at treating sports injuries and just tells the patient to give up. Is this fear common among parents?

I thought your schtick was that your parents didn't know about sports so they never exposed them to you and now you are living with regret... this is a new angle for you.

Well spotted.

Guess when both of my high level athletes got hurt?

We were very lucky, not once in their actual sports.

I had a number of serious sports injuries and coached gymnastics, and this concern never crossed my mind.

Anonymous wrote:Injuries are common in sports, and my parents never let me play because they don’t want to be on the hook for thousands of dollars of medical expenses if I do get injured. And most doctors suck at treating sports injuries and just tells the patient to give up. Is this fear common among parents?

I thought your schtick was that your parents didn't know about sports so they never exposed them to you and now you are living with regret... this is a new angle for you.

Anonymous wrote:Injuries are common in sports, and my parents never let me play because they don’t want to be on the hook for thousands of dollars of medical expenses if I do get injured. And most doctors suck at treating sports injuries and just tells the patient to give up. Is this fear common among parents?

No, but you bring up a good point. Both my kids had injuries in travel games that cost much more than the travel teams. I never did travel growing up and was never injured.

No.

It would seem the greater concern would be the actual injuries?

Injuries are common in sports, and my parents never let me play because they don’t want to be on the hook for thousands of dollars of medical expenses if I do get injured. And most doctors suck at treating sports injuries and just tells the patient to give up. Is this fear common among parents?