re: How parents are ruining youth sports

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trip to colorado for his 12 or 13 year old daughter to play in a softball

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I mean, it's stupid regardless. But if it was a son playing baseball, he'd at least have a 1:1,000,000 chance it could pay off. It will NEVER pay off with a girl playing softball.

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Live view of shitty parents' reactions to Pecker thread:

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I can't get over how parents have convinced themselves that focusing on one sport for a kid's entire childhood is actually benefiting them because they learn teamwork. You've made your child one-dimensional and ignored their development for your own sake, but it's somehow about the child?

"They learned teamwork and how to achieve goals." No, they learned how to play baseball because that's all they've ever done. You haven't actually taught them anything.

I say this as someone who played a lot of sports growing up. I was incredibly fortunate that my parents got me involved in a lot of other things. Probably because I'm innately interested in a lot of things, but they were receptive to that and encouraged it. A lot of parents are disappointed af when their kids aren't as serious about sports as they want them to be.

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I feel like you're smart enough to piece together that "practice" could easily refer to preparing yourself for whatever task is coming up.

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Then maybe they should spend more time practicing math and less time practicing some useless sport.

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But sports does teach them about hard work, perseverance, and hustle. How to handle success and failure. The importance of working as a team.

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Ehh Individual sports are better


Teaches you hard work and all that other jazz, while also teaching them to always look out for number 1 and frick everyone else. Sets them up even better for the actual real world

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I can't get over how parents have convinced themselves that focusing on one sport for a kid's entire childhood is actually benefiting them because they learn teamwork. You've made your child one-dimensional and ignored their development for your own sake, but it's somehow about the child?

"They learned teamwork and how to achieve goals." No, they learned how to play baseball because that's all they've ever done. You haven't actually taught them anything.

I say this as someone who played a lot of sports growing up. I was incredibly fortunate that my parents got me involved in a lot of other things. Probably because I'm innately interested in a lot of things, but they were receptive to that and encouraged it. A lot of parents are disappointed af when their kids aren't as serious about sports as they want them to be.

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It's partly this, but it's also partly because Jax's dad spent all the family's money on travel ball, an F250 and a wave runner that he hasn't uncovered in 6 years.

So they really need Jax to make it because that college fund is frickin' BLEAK

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It will NEVER pay off with a girl playing softball.

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So, like what if she gets a full ride to somewhere great like Duke or Stanford?

Are you suggesting you think you will spend more than 200k on her softball as a kid?


I have told this board, if you want free college, and your daughter is halfway not retarded athletically, put her in tennis. They are giving away scholarships at multiple d1 programs


Hell, LSU took a girl last year that got her arse handed to her 6-0, 6-0 in every match

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So, like what if she gets a full ride to somewhere great like Duke or Stanford?

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The article said that less than 1% of high school athletes get D1 scholarships. It also made the claim that most people will spend more on youth sports than the scholarship is worth. That's on average -- certainly Stanford and Duke are not average.

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Playing the lottery and pushing your child to the brink chasing a sports scholarship. Two sure fire ways to win in life.

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That isnt what I said.....


I responded to this inaccurate quote

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It will NEVER pay off with a girl playing softball.

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If my FIL hasn't spent at least that much on her in that timeframe, I'd be surprised.

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100k?


What in the fricking frick


She likely started playing around 8


So he spent 10k a year?



Almost 1k a month


Unreal

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I'm spending 20 grand on my kid's (childhood) sports career so we can have an outside shot at getting a partial athletic scholarship. Wish me luck

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If little Johnny is good you wont have to spend money on him once he is about 10ish


The parents of Jaxxon who sucks arse pick up the cost for those that are good


Or in my case, the parents of Vincent Wellington cover the costs