Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The past three pages are just distraction. What matters is that your kid plays travel.

EVERY kid should play travel in at least ONE sport by 8th grade. EVERY kid. With dedication, hard work and putting skin in the game, any kid can play travel in something,

Kids need to know they’re elite in something. It helps them understand who are winners, who will embarrass you and who hurts your reputation and social standing.

It’s stupid to try to play football and, for example, do glee club or math “team” or something. That doesn’t work. Girls get all confused and like “who are you?” and the football coaches doubt your commitment with good reason.

In high school you need to know where you stand and then elevate your place as high as possible. Travel gives you the foundation. LEGO and Minecraft don’t.

The problem with this area is I can’t tell if this is a troll or if you’re serious. Because who’s I really hope this is a joke post, even odds it’s not.

Anonymous wrote:The past three pages are just distraction. What matters is that your kid plays travel.

EVERY kid should play travel in at least ONE sport by 8th grade. EVERY kid. With dedication, hard work and putting skin in the game, any kid can play travel in something,

Kids need to know they’re elite in something. It helps them understand who are winners, who will embarrass you and who hurts your reputation and social standing.

It’s stupid to try to play football and, for example, do glee club or math “team” or something. That doesn’t work. Girls get all confused and like “who are you?” and the football coaches doubt your commitment with good reason.

In high school you need to know where you stand and then elevate your place as high as possible. Travel gives you the foundation. LEGO and Minecraft don’t.

Anonymous wrote:This is one of those crazy Type A/rampant untreated anxiety/raising children is a blood sport DC things that absolutely drives me crazy… and that I will obsess over and over and over…

Anonymous wrote:The past three pages are just distraction. What matters is that your kid plays travel.

EVERY kid should play travel in at least ONE sport by 8th grade. EVERY kid. With dedication, hard work and putting skin in the game, any kid can play travel in something,

Kids need to know they’re elite in something. It helps them understand who are winners, who will embarrass you and who hurts your reputation and social standing.

It’s stupid to try to play football and, for example, do glee club or math “team” or something. That doesn’t work. Girls get all confused and like “who are you?” and the football coaches doubt your commitment with good reason.

In high school you need to know where you stand and then elevate your place as high as possible. Travel gives you the foundation. LEGO and Minecraft don’t.

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty simple and straightforward - if the club tells you we'll get back to you in 2 days, and you haven't heard back in 2 days, then go ahead and assume your child did not make the team.

If they end up reaching out to you after the 2 days to welcome your child to the team, well, lucky you. Cause your child literally did not make the team, they literally choose other's over your kid. It's just a spot that wasn't intended for your child ended opening up.

Not sure why this is hard?

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty simple and straightforward - if the club tells you we'll get back to you in 2 days, and you haven't heard back in 2 days, then go ahead and assume your child did not make the team.

If they end up reaching out to you after the 2 days to welcome your child to the team, well, lucky you. Cause your child literally did not make the team, they literally choose other's over your kid. It's just a spot that wasn't intended for your child ended opening up.

Not sure why this is hard?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way for teams to fulfill the promise of a timely answer is if families and clubs went through a matching process like public schools in ny or medical residency. I don’t think families or teams want that, so it’s inevitable that some kids get spots right away and some kids get spots a little late, and some kids get spots right before the season starts. There will always be a good number of people holding each other’s tail waiting for someone to make a decision and commit to a spot or free it up.

Bernice delays committing to a spot on team cucumber because team radish hasn’t gotten back to her yet. And team radish is waiting for Cornelia to accept before letting Bernice have the spot. Meanwhile Cornelia wants a spot on team potato, who is waiting to hear back from Dorothy. And Dorothy hasn’t committed to team potato because she wants Bernice’s spot on team cucumber. It could go on forever.

hahaha, love this!

Tryouts are stressful, good luck to everyone out there, especially to those whose kid is not the top player, or at least not perceived as such during tryouts.

This is our first season dealing with it as "veterans" and man this is true. I have way too many side email chains and chats with different parents right now. I'm so afraid I'm going to respond to the wrong one with the wrong thing. I was not expecting to get involved in any drama but I guess this is what happens when certain parents start reaching out because they want to know who's staying, who's unhappy, etc...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only way for teams to fulfill the promise of a timely answer is if families and clubs went through a matching process like public schools in ny or medical residency. I don’t think families or teams want that, so it’s inevitable that some kids get spots right away and some kids get spots a little late, and some kids get spots right before the season starts. There will always be a good number of people holding each other’s tail waiting for someone to make a decision and commit to a spot or free it up.

Bernice delays committing to a spot on team cucumber because team radish hasn’t gotten back to her yet. And team radish is waiting for Cornelia to accept before letting Bernice have the spot. Meanwhile Cornelia wants a spot on team potato, who is waiting to hear back from Dorothy. And Dorothy hasn’t committed to team potato because she wants Bernice’s spot on team cucumber. It could go on forever.

hahaha, love this!

Tryouts are stressful, good luck to everyone out there, especially to those whose kid is not the top player, or at least not perceived as such during tryouts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty simple and straightforward - if the club tells you we'll get back to you in 2 days, and you haven't heard back in 2 days, then go ahead and assume your child did not make the team.

If they end up reaching out to you after the 2 days to welcome your child to the team, well, lucky you. Cause your child literally did not make the team, they literally choose other's over your kid. It's just a spot that wasn't intended for your child ended opening up.

Honestly, having experienced this from several perspectives, it’s really not that simple. Names do indeed get left off spreadsheets, so people stress when clubs thought an offer had gone out.

Not sure why this is hard?

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty simple and straightforward - if the club tells you we'll get back to you in 2 days, and you haven't heard back in 2 days, then go ahead and assume your child did not make the team.

If they end up reaching out to you after the 2 days to welcome your child to the team, well, lucky you. Cause your child literally did not make the team, they literally choose other's over your kid. It's just a spot that wasn't intended for your child ended opening up.

Honestly, having experienced this from several perspectives, it’s really not that simple. Names do indeed get left off spreadsheets, so people stress when clubs thought an offer had gone out.

Not sure why this is hard?

Anonymous wrote:The only way for teams to fulfill the promise of a timely answer is if families and clubs went through a matching process like public schools in ny or medical residency. I don’t think families or teams want that, so it’s inevitable that some kids get spots right away and some kids get spots a little late, and some kids get spots right before the season starts. There will always be a good number of people holding each other’s tail waiting for someone to make a decision and commit to a spot or free it up.

Bernice delays committing to a spot on team cucumber because team radish hasn’t gotten back to her yet. And team radish is waiting for Cornelia to accept before letting Bernice have the spot. Meanwhile Cornelia wants a spot on team potato, who is waiting to hear back from Dorothy. And Dorothy hasn’t committed to team potato because she wants Bernice’s spot on team cucumber. It could go on forever.