Anonymous
Post 07/21/2024 14:42     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Marching band! 😆
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2024 14:25     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Vote track. Volleyball depends on who are in theteam
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2024 19:36     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Don't go near travel soccer, did WAY too many years of it before realizing the physical and mental damage it did. Tennis is great until they get to a competitive level, and then you get the crazy parents and sometimes kids. Not every family is nuts, it varies. In Florida the tennis culture is insane, much worse than Northeast.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2024 10:54     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Anonymous wrote:99% of hockey parents are great. The bad apples are really limited to Bowie, black bears, dads of kids who play lower a at Montgomery, and the philadelphia metro area.


This made me laugh out loud. And there is a grain of truth in it!
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2024 20:09     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Anonymous wrote:Follow your daughter's interests. Then find the club/team with the least offensive parents and kids and a schedule that works for your family. Maybe Field Hockey? DD did that for awhile and families were nice, but we bailed around 11 because she got into other things and it got more competitive than what she wanted.


This. You can’t really pick your kid’s sport, it has to come from them.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2024 20:05     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Softball!
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2024 19:12     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Water polo is great, cross country and track are great. Everyone cheers for everyone. Hockey was a pure nightmare due to a few truly nasty dads. Towards the end of my ds's time with that sport, I sat on the other side of the rink wearing ear pods the whole time. They were BAD, awful men who dissed their own kid's team.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2024 18:02     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
99% of hockey parents are great. The bad apples are really limited to Bowie, black bears, dads of kids who play lower a at Montgomery, and the philadelphia metro area.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2024 01:21     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Anonymous wrote:My daughter has made very close friends with volleyball. The girls are so nice and supportive. She started playing at age 8 in rec classes but now plays club at age 12


Another vote for volleyball. But - as others mentioned already - follow your child's interest. Get these ideas and give your child the opportunity to experience a range of sports. You cannot pick a sport based on subjective opinions about kids / parents / vibes.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2024 12:02     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is a great character-building sport for kids because it’s just you and your opponent- no teammates or equipment to hid behind. My son has wrestled some very tough girls as an 8 year-old. Most wrestling parents are really supportive and cheer on all the kids because it’s so clear how much courage it takes to just get on the mat by yourself.

Even if your kid is not the best, at least they’ll be learning a useful self-defense skill. And I enjoy the tough wrestling culture. Combat sports parents tend to be cool.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2024 11:28     Subject: Re:What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Look, certain sports are known for having terrible parents. In declining order of awfulness: hockey, lacrosse, basketball.

Tennis parents can be highly competitive but they are more underground about it.

Don’t know why but swimming and track parents generally seem nicer.


I'm going to stick up for hockey parents here, at least a bit. No question that there are some terrible hockey parents out there (I can't ever hear the Ozzy Osborne song "Crazy Train" without thinking of one mom in particular), but my kid played (reasonably) high level youth hockey for 10 years, and I made many great friends amongst the parents. The Youth Industrial Sports Complex does create a lot of pressure on the kids and parents, and many hockey parents are very Type A, and it shows. But if you can find the right group, hockey parents are great.


Rich Cohen wrote "Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent" in 2021. We're not a hockey family, but have been through other travel sports and it's the best description of youth travel sports that I've come across including the mix of crazy and laid back parents and the latter turning into the former over the course of a season


I'm the poster who defended hockey parents above. I read this book, and really got a kick out of it. Lots of truth in it.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2024 11:22     Subject: Re:What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Look, certain sports are known for having terrible parents. In declining order of awfulness: hockey, lacrosse, basketball.

Tennis parents can be highly competitive but they are more underground about it.

Don’t know why but swimming and track parents generally seem nicer.


I'm going to stick up for hockey parents here, at least a bit. No question that there are some terrible hockey parents out there (I can't ever hear the Ozzy Osborne song "Crazy Train" without thinking of one mom in particular), but my kid played (reasonably) high level youth hockey for 10 years, and I made many great friends amongst the parents. The Youth Industrial Sports Complex does create a lot of pressure on the kids and parents, and many hockey parents are very Type A, and it shows. But if you can find the right group, hockey parents are great.


Rich Cohen wrote "Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent" in 2021. We're not a hockey family, but have been through other travel sports and it's the best description of youth travel sports that I've come across including the mix of crazy and laid back parents and the latter turning into the former over the course of a season
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2024 10:50     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Hockey
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2024 10:15     Subject: Re:What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Anonymous wrote:Look, certain sports are known for having terrible parents. In declining order of awfulness: hockey, lacrosse, basketball.

Tennis parents can be highly competitive but they are more underground about it.

Don’t know why but swimming and track parents generally seem nicer.


I'm going to stick up for hockey parents here, at least a bit. No question that there are some terrible hockey parents out there (I can't ever hear the Ozzy Osborne song "Crazy Train" without thinking of one mom in particular), but my kid played (reasonably) high level youth hockey for 10 years, and I made many great friends amongst the parents. The Youth Industrial Sports Complex does create a lot of pressure on the kids and parents, and many hockey parents are very Type A, and it shows. But if you can find the right group, hockey parents are great.
Anonymous
Post 07/12/2024 05:31     Subject: What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?
Wrestling is a great character-building sport for kids because it’s just you and your opponent- no teammates or equipment to hid behind. My son has wrestled some very tough girls as an 8 year-old. Most wrestling parents are really supportive and cheer on all the kids because it’s so clear how much courage it takes to just get on the mat by yourself.