Professor Neil
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L. 🌈🇨🇦 :
kids sports being a pipeline for professional sports is super annoying.
2025-06-26 18:52:26
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ADRienne 🧡 :
Everyone hates on millennials with our participation awards, but we had no say in them. We were kids, the adults were the ones making the trophies and giving them to us.
2025-06-26 05:17:15
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Niko :
we also have to monetize everything we do because it's hard to live on just a paycheck
2025-06-27 14:35:20
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The Empress Mermaid :
My hot take is being raised this way has led to a population of overweight out of shape adults. If you're not at the top and winning all the time, what's the point of even playing and exercising? As adults, you either have to be a top level gym-bro or don't bother.
2025-06-26 12:18:31
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nope_ona_rope :
This is even true for dance schools now. It’s sad
2025-06-26 03:01:24
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Meggie :
As a piano teacher, this breaks my heart. None of my students will be professional pianists but they deserve to experience and enjoy playing an instrument without too much pressure. Or even finding out they hate it and quit is valuable. That’s how you find what you love. And you don’t have to be the best to love it.
2025-06-26 14:24:53
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Marzipan Pig :
I was "gifted" as a kid and not allowed ro do anything I wasn't excelling at. I think that kinda messed me up, because there's tonnes of fun things I'm horrendous at, but they're still fun. and why do I have to be good at them? Like, why can't I draw even though I'm horrendous? I always feel so guilty, like god will smite me, if I do an activity I'm very much *not* gifted at
2025-06-26 03:39:08
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JaLynnChar🇨🇦 :
It’s all about money - you can’t just play hockey- you need to pay for power skating, excessive equipment, hockey camps, let alone specialized lessons. And heaven forbid you take the summer off - you get behind and loose your spot. Are we still having fun or paying to stay in the game?
2025-06-26 12:04:51
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allison :
I asked my parents to take me out of soccer when I was 10 because everyone started taking everything so seriously. Kids just want to have fun doing an activity together
2025-06-27 08:34:49
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swagman69 :
One thing I loved about doing sports in a small town was that it wasn’t serious. No one is going pro or getting a scholarship. We just went out there and played hard for the fun of it
2025-06-26 02:33:54
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pak :
We discourage kids from recreational sports and the complain about them spending all their time on YouTube and social media. Recreational sports teaches team works which is more important than training for Olympics
2025-06-26 11:27:44
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Allison Ab :
I don’t play team sports at all as an adult because as a kid I had too much anxiety about “letting my team down”
2025-06-26 02:53:06
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Charlie 🇨🇦🌈 :
And kids aren’t allowed to start sports “late” if they aren’t doing it from the moment they can walk there’s no options for them. So if they’re 9 and decide they want to try hockey there’s not options cuz there’s the NHL goals track or nothing. It’s ridiculous and no wonder kids are playing video games so much. There’s not really other options for them. And I say this as a child psychologist
2025-06-26 15:53:32
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Emily Garside :
It’s wild, I didn’t do anything as a kid because I hated competing. Luckily now as an aging millennial I’m an adult figure skater who gets to finally do this for fun
2025-06-26 08:47:38
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Crimson :
I danced as a kid. Loved it, until the studio started doing competitions instead of performances. Then suddenly every class was less about learning and more about perfection for scores. Haven't been in a class since but Ive missed it the past 20 years
2025-06-26 05:49:05
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PepsiBepsiPeps :
I’ve always hated the expectation of if you do a sport you have to compete. I’d start so many sports and be good at them but the second it came to competition season I quit
2025-06-26 08:03:12
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Ratutooee 🐀 :
Gen Z here- it’s definitely coming from the older generations. when i learned how to crochet, my family tried to get me to start selling everything i made. when i said i didn’t want to do more than the occasional craft fair, they asked me why i “didn’t want to have a job i’d actually enjoy”.
2025-06-26 13:23:02
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ImmortalSnail 🐌 🇨🇦 ᖭི༏ᖫྀ :
We’ve produced multiple Olympic medalists in figure skating? Who?
2025-06-26 03:15:15
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Cat Neu :
I dipped of my own volition at 8 from softball because competition made it not fun. I tried picking it up again as an adult. Those hoes needed to chill. It was a “housewife” league! I quit again.
2025-06-26 11:14:03
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iblamethetacobell :
Imma say it again: the lack of allowing people to do stuff recreationally in our society is destroying our kids, let them have fun. Not everything needs to be performance worthy
2025-06-26 20:16:45
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zerocrawdad199 :
I mean you literally go to a public ice rink if you’re gonna be recreational figure skating. Unless Ontario got rid of recreational rinks which make no sense
2025-06-26 16:59:13
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They call me Rye🇨🇦 :
Wait like how north haha thunderbay north or Barrie north 🤣
2025-06-26 03:04:57
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Erika Hirsch 🍉 :
Not just compete, but expensive travel competitions.
2025-06-26 15:30:09
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Posy and friends :
When my daughter was 2 years old we went to toddler gymnastics. She was of very normal ability for a 2 year old. One Mum commented to me one day, “gosh she’s a bit tall for gymnastics isn’t she??”
2025-06-26 03:46:12
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peemanpoopgirl :
When children’s education, hobbies, and experiences are solely for the purpose of social mobility, it leaves no room for “mediocrity” within a neoliberal capitalist framework. I’m taking a 3 hour long survey course specifically about the effects of neoliberalism on American public education for my master’s degree and there has been a HUGE shift in how we approach children’s education and extracurriculars over the past 40ish years.
2025-06-27 09:50:31
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