Is the extreme commitment to youth sports worth the expensive price tag?

Statistically speaking, your kid has no talent and he or she sucks at sports. They are not very good a school either.

It just seems if sports become the center of a kids life his brain suffers.
Think of all the bone heads you knew growing up. Lots of them were good in sports and love sports but they were idiots in the classroom.

I stopped going to live games of any kind, l dont buy sports channels of any kind. I play any sport l like. I have nothing but contempt at seeing sports hijacked in this country. But its done. So f me, and f them.

I'm curious about how most of these kids will fare psychologically when reality sets in?

Yea you should help but if they don’t go you shouldn’t throw it in there face

I haven't played any sports and turned out okay so no.
I rather talk to my kids and show and teach them the life skills like cooking, cleaning, and talking about the books we read. We have a limit of one sport per season for our kids, and we are not doing any traveling sports.

I rather do things together as a family.

Bowling ?

With all the money parents spend in these expensive travel leagues they could just pay for their college education since that's what they want so badly for them. Not to mention most kids just don't have the talent regardless of how much time they put into it. They get to the high school varsity level and suddenly they are average or D3 (which doesn't offer scholarships) at best.

It’s sad because it’s Necessary if you want your kid to excel these days

Bruh Im still figuring things out.

There is some mismatch between the enthused words that baseball kid uses and the flat, monotone voice he uses.

daddy ball

And the World’s Worst Parents Award go to...

The return on investment is really low. Everyone’s family and motivation for sacrificing lots of time and money is different. My wife and I nearly went broke chasing a volleyball scholarship for our oldest daughter in hopes of one day watching her play and getting her degree in college. All the extra training, practices, travel, college recruiting, headache, etc was all for not. It caused a huge riff in our family. Long story short she ended up not playing her senior year in high school and quit playing travel because she got burnt out. I would say rec leagues are the way to go and focus on school, personal development and preparing your kids for the future job market. Last time I checked very small percentage of kids earn a scholarship through sports and even smaller percent make it to a level where they can make a substantial amount of money in sports.