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re: How much is too much to spend on your kids sports?
Posted on 8/8/25 at 4:05 pm to pickle311
Posted on 8/8/25 at 4:05 pm to pickle311
My friend refused to pay for his daughters cheerleading. She made some comp team. It was only $500 but he wanted her to do free cheerleading. I felt bad for the kid so I decided to pay it. fricked up thing is he makes more than me he's just a cheap bastard. The correct answer to this question is there is no limit. As long as the kids is happy and enjoys it its worth it.
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Posted on 8/8/25 at 4:15 pm to pickle311
I listen to a podcast where they talk about NASCAR drivers and how they got their start from go-karts all the way until they get the call to drive for a low tier truck team. I imagine this is much more than dirt bikes. There’s guys on here where their parents pretty much sold everything, spent all their savings, and took out a second mortgage just so the kid can keep racing. Some of the guys that make it say that for every success story theres dozens of stories where it doesn’t pay off and the family goes broke because they let their kid chase his dream.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 4:18 pm to pickle311
Dance bill for one kid this year will be around $35k. I am lucky that I only have one kid that wants to dance. I know some that spend up to $100k and that will only go up. My parents wouldn't have paid close to this amount for any sport I did growing up. The only thing my parents paid for were shoes and they weren't high end at all.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 4:26 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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How much does little league cost these days?
The thing that sucks about this is the rec leagues have been turned to shite because most of the decent players have moved to competitive teams.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 5:13 pm to pickle311
And here I am bitching about my daughter’s $3,600 club soccer fee.
America is absolutely retarded and ruined kids sports. People dropping tens of thousands—wild to me.
America is absolutely retarded and ruined kids sports. People dropping tens of thousands—wild to me.
This post was edited on 8/8/25 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 8/8/25 at 6:06 pm to pickle311
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I spend around $20k per year on racing and trainers
I coach rec sports for years now both baseball and basketball.
I've been able to outfit my two boys every year/couple years from knowing wjat to buy used from ebay and sales for under $200 a year.
They are competitive and perform very well compared with their peers without all the fancy expensive latest and greatest new shite.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 7:09 pm to thejudge
I listen to a podcast where they talk about NASCAR drivers and how they got their start from go-karts all the way until they get the call to drive for a low tier truck team. I imagine this is much more than dirt bikes. There’s guys on here where their parents pretty much sold everything, spent all their savings, and took out a second mortgage just so the kid can keep racing. Some of the guys that make it say that for every success story theres dozens of stories where it doesn’t pay off and the family goes broke because they let their kid chase his dream.
It happens in motocross too, lots of divorces.
It happens in motocross too, lots of divorces.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 8:13 pm to wackatimesthree
normal There are no shortage of people who will tell you exactly that. As they hand you a pen to get your signature.
If the person isn’t a legit collegiate coach or pro coach idgaf what their opinion is lol.
I have to hear it from someone besides Bubba Fontenot IIII
If the person isn’t a legit collegiate coach or pro coach idgaf what their opinion is lol.
I have to hear it from someone besides Bubba Fontenot IIII
Posted on 8/8/25 at 9:22 pm to MTG325
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isten to a podcast where they talk about NASCAR drivers and how they got their start from go-karts all the way until they get the call to drive for a low tier truck team. I imagine this is much more than dirt bikes. There’s guys on here where their parents pretty much sold everything, spent all their savings, and took out a second mortgage just so the kid can keep racing. Some of the guys that make it say that for every success story theres dozens of stories where it doesn’t pay off and the family goes broke because they let their kid chase his dream.
My understanding about F1 drivers is a lot of the ones that make it had the wealthy family that could keep it going or were already in the business.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 9:40 pm to Tr33fiddy
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In the 80s my older sister begged for a flute. She eventually got it and hated it. She had to stay home and practice all summer since the flute cost so much. I went out having fun to get away from the horrific flute sounds. My dad is still appalled that I never learned an instrument.
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I imagine there is a bunch of kids trapped in these sports and can't give them up because the parents have so much invested.
It does seem to be at least as much about the parents as the kids.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 10:06 pm to Napoleon
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I felt bad for the kid so I decided to pay it. fricked up thing is he makes more than me he's just a cheap bastard. T
Could be.
Or it could be that he understands that kids need to hear the word "no" a hell of a lot more than they do these days.
It's not good for children spiritually, emotionally, or mentally to not hear that word any more often than kids tend to hear it now.
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The correct answer to this question is there is no limit. As long as the kids is happy and enjoys it its worth it.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you see so many children throwing absolute volcanic tantrums in the grocery store while the parents are attempting to "negotiate" with them instead of beating their tender behinds.
And YouTube is chock full of videos of the results of that parenting method when the subjects are 18 or 22 or 30 being stuffed into the back of a cop car wearing handcuffs and pepper spray because they thought they could tell the cop how the traffic stop was going to go rather than the cop telling them.
Why wouldn't they think that? They've never known anything else.
Some of you may be atheists, but for those of you who are not, please consider that the philosophy espoused and quoted above is not an accident.
We have reached the point in the western world at which we (unconsciously, without realizing it) believe that the entire purpose of life is to be happy and have pleasure. As the poster I quoted said, "The correct answer is that there is no limit [to pursuing this aim]. As long as it brings happiness and enjoyment, [the cost] is worth it."
This is a spiritually bankrupt philosophy. Hopefully I don't have to explain why.
It's a result of all of the "isms" of the 19th and 20th century (hedonism, scientism, postmodernism, etc.) that reached critical mass around 1950 and began pushing average people away from duty and obligation and into the arms of entitlement and selfishness.
That wave has crested and looms big like a Tsunami over us all in the west now.
And I'm not trying to pick on Napoleon in particular...that's the point—it's endemic now. After 150-200 years of academic philosophizing filtering down into mainstream society, 60 years of advertising, 50 or so years of self-help and parenting books distributed containing truly awful advice, and last but certainly not least, a similar number of years of the western Protestant church following culture rather than Scripture, it's like the water the fish swims in that he isn't even aware of anymore.
Case in point, do y'all ever think about the message it sends to children to be indulged to the degree that we're discussing? That their happiness and enjoyment over what will only amount to an amusement for 99.99% of them is worth any price?
Do you ever stop to think, "Well, we could do this and of course he would love to, but does that mean we really should?"
Just something to ponder.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 10:36 pm to wackatimesthree
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There is an embedded presupposition in comments like these and that is that all of this coaching and one-on-one training produces a significantly higher level of play. Such that you just can't compete without it. I've even been told that without these methods, professional sports would cease to exist. If that's the case, why aren't the levels of performance exponentially improving at the next level? I don't pretend to know enough about high school sports to know whether that's happening in high school, but it doesn't seem to be happening in college. I do pay enough attention to college to know that. Kids coming into college sports aren't blowing the top off of previously held records or leaving players from 30 years ago in the dust performance-wise. Not when you account for the natural evolution of any given sport. And y'all are telling me that these super intense training methods for kids have been around and widely utilized for decades, so the kids coming into college now should have had this sort of training their entire lives. Why aren't they revolutionizing every sport? Why aren't we seeing college kids breaking records left and right?
That’s a whole bunch of words to not say much. Also female soccer is largely being played at a much higher level of skill and athleticism than in the past. Partly due to a bigger talent pool and partly due to better understanding of the game from a younger age I’d wager. So they are starting to revolutionize the sport in a way
I don’t think the training is that intense at all. They practice 3x a week for an hour to an hour and a half. But having a base level of understanding of shape, tactics, and better first touch and on ball skill is something that is clearly occurring at these “club” or “travel” teams vs some dads coaching in rec where kids are still just bunching up or turning and burning with very little understanding of the game itself.
All of the kids in high school have been having this kind of training for about 4-5 years. Thats the new baseline that a school with a lot of girls gets to pick from.
I don’t think it’s anything mind blowing as opposed to just spending more hours playing the sports under the guidance of people who actually know it and how to teach the necessary skills.
Not sure how that doesn’t make sense to you.
This post was edited on 8/8/25 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 8/8/25 at 10:43 pm to pickle311
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How much is too much to spend on your kids sports?
Registration fee, equipment, a few snack for the kids and money for the after season party....that's my limit. But then again, I'm focusing on my kids' education and not their athleticism.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 1:24 am to pickle311
I mean you just gotta be honest with them at some point. Doling out that much cash for zero return is just not reasonable to any reasonable person. You can tell if a kids special in sports at a pretty young age, and in most sports if you're not going to be above average height etc., you have zero chance of ever making that money back. Putting that same money into saving for them would be way better by the time they hit college.
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