re: Tell the truth, do you ever hope your kid's team loses so you can get home?

Team sports

My kids ski and golf

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You show me someone that's doesn't mind losing and I'll show you a loser.

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It’s my kid’s team, not me.

I'm going to try and avoid getting my kids into any travel sports. Park ball is good enough.

very rarely, but somewhat yes. I don't want them to lose ever, but i'd say i can be happier about losing and going home than i would be about winning and having to stay longer in certain situations.

I'm not fond of playing a Sunday night 11u baseball game starting at 9:30 for the consolation bracket championship. It's a participation everybody gets a "ring" game, and it's ridiculous that it would start that late. Just this past weekend that's what happened in Port Allen. Game was scheduled for 8:15, didn't start until 9:30. Just stupid to schedule a game that late on Sunday, and one of the teams playing in that game was from Monroe. Bunch of 11 year olds getting home at 2 in the morning for finishing 10th place in a tournament.

Wimps.

My boys wrestle. We will spend 7 hours at a gym and between 2 to 4 matches we have we are on the mat for maybe two minutes of that 7 hours. We try to go to a tournament every weekend.

No, means too much to my girl(softball) and the most important thing…. This time in their lives doesn’t last forever, so soak it all up while you can.

Don't you yhave a Ritz Carlton to go to afterwards?

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Game was scheduled for 8:15, didn't start until 9:30. Just stupid to schedule a game that late on Sunday, and one of the teams playing in that game was from Monroe. Bunch of 11 year olds getting home at 2 in the morning for finishing 10th place in a tournament.

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I would have forfeited if I were them… nothing really counts until high school anyway. That’s the first level where people around you know if you won or lost even if they weren’t at the game

I have never hoped for a loss for them.

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Parents have made kids sports into a chore and completely hijacked the experience.

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Exactly. We never had to leave our town to play a game against any number of teams. Very few parents showed up. We played a game and no one was there to get a scholarship. You did not have to dedicate yourself to a game at age 7 for fear of not making the junior college roster. You also did not see the same number of joint and bone injuries they are seeing now because kids were allowed to grow into their bodies before having a rigorous schedule of year round competitive sports that was normal for high school but not 3rd grade.

My daughters highschool teams has 5 major injuries. 3 are sports ending, back, hip and wrist. And every single player has had several injuries going back to elementary school all from sports. We did not let my daughter play full time sports until Junior High - she played some church league. She still made the team and has had no injuries related to playing sports. Most of the kids seem burnt out and ready to quit. The coach said he keeps losing juniors and other coaches are saying the same thing. He is now leaning away from travel ball kids because they are too fragile and less likely to be burned out. He says it is a recent thing in the last 7 or so years. These kids have been programed to think sports is their job.