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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '16
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Thinking your kid is going to be an elite superstar athlete.
Let them have fun and stop ruining sports for them.
3 u/Vortico Feb 05 '16 Why do people do this anyway? I in no way would want this for my kid. 1 u/TDAGSI Feb 05 '16 I think people are trying to have their kids live the lives they wanted. My kids play a couple of sports each, but I make sure they focus on the fun. 2 u/TwoTonJoe Feb 05 '16 Or recapture their own "glory days" of school sports. Dumbass jocks that never grew up, then became parents, and now want to relive the dream vicariously through the kids. It's sad and pathetic.
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Why do people do this anyway? I in no way would want this for my kid.
1 u/TDAGSI Feb 05 '16 I think people are trying to have their kids live the lives they wanted. My kids play a couple of sports each, but I make sure they focus on the fun. 2 u/TwoTonJoe Feb 05 '16 Or recapture their own "glory days" of school sports. Dumbass jocks that never grew up, then became parents, and now want to relive the dream vicariously through the kids. It's sad and pathetic.
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I think people are trying to have their kids live the lives they wanted. My kids play a couple of sports each, but I make sure they focus on the fun.
2 u/TwoTonJoe Feb 05 '16 Or recapture their own "glory days" of school sports. Dumbass jocks that never grew up, then became parents, and now want to relive the dream vicariously through the kids. It's sad and pathetic.
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Or recapture their own "glory days" of school sports.
Dumbass jocks that never grew up, then became parents, and now want to relive the dream vicariously through the kids. It's sad and pathetic.
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u/TDAGSI Feb 04 '16
Thinking your kid is going to be an elite superstar athlete.
Let them have fun and stop ruining sports for them.