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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 598587" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Yes, adults in youth sports (and music) tend to be PIAs quite often. I think it's because we end up over invested.</p><p></p><p>In this occasion, seriously over invested. Let's face it, there were bunch of people who had used much more money and even more time than they ever care to count to their kids hobby. Who had last decade (or longer in case of having also older kids in sport like us) been up at six at weekend mornings because their kid's sport, sold more coffee, candy and toilet paper or cookies than they can count. And fund raised other ways till they were blue. Sat in cold more than they ever wanted. Planned all their weekends and holidays around kids sport for that decade. Nixed plans for family vacations because time and money goes to the sport. Done many other sacrifices. And most of those kids are at the height of their athletic career just now. There are few, who will make a decent living from it for a decade or two. Maybe one or two, who will make big money. For others, it is the experiences, learning to win and lose graciously, learn value of hard work, learn to be a team mate. Active lifestyle. Not small things at all. But let's face it, all that our easy child could have gotten from scouts and some lower calibre sport just as well, with tiny part of the cost in both time and money we have put to his sport.</p><p></p><p>We are the lucky ones to whom the sport has paid back. Not only is difficult child one of those who has a chance to make a living and maybe even more, if he gets lucky. But more than that, it has given him focus and motivation and those are worth every penny and second we have used. Even if only thing easy child ends up getting would be those sportsman skills, which of course are invaluable too (but could be achieved with lower cost just as well.)</p><p></p><p>That kind of over investment to child's hobby tends to bring worst out from adults. I have seen same also in music and I bet it is the same with almost any competitive activity that demands a lot from family.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 598587, member: 14557"] Yes, adults in youth sports (and music) tend to be PIAs quite often. I think it's because we end up over invested. In this occasion, seriously over invested. Let's face it, there were bunch of people who had used much more money and even more time than they ever care to count to their kids hobby. Who had last decade (or longer in case of having also older kids in sport like us) been up at six at weekend mornings because their kid's sport, sold more coffee, candy and toilet paper or cookies than they can count. And fund raised other ways till they were blue. Sat in cold more than they ever wanted. Planned all their weekends and holidays around kids sport for that decade. Nixed plans for family vacations because time and money goes to the sport. Done many other sacrifices. And most of those kids are at the height of their athletic career just now. There are few, who will make a decent living from it for a decade or two. Maybe one or two, who will make big money. For others, it is the experiences, learning to win and lose graciously, learn value of hard work, learn to be a team mate. Active lifestyle. Not small things at all. But let's face it, all that our easy child could have gotten from scouts and some lower calibre sport just as well, with tiny part of the cost in both time and money we have put to his sport. We are the lucky ones to whom the sport has paid back. Not only is difficult child one of those who has a chance to make a living and maybe even more, if he gets lucky. But more than that, it has given him focus and motivation and those are worth every penny and second we have used. Even if only thing easy child ends up getting would be those sportsman skills, which of course are invaluable too (but could be achieved with lower cost just as well.) That kind of over investment to child's hobby tends to bring worst out from adults. I have seen same also in music and I bet it is the same with almost any competitive activity that demands a lot from family. [/QUOTE]
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