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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Erika Hirsch 🍉 :
Not just compete, but expensive travel competitions.
2025-06-26 15:30:09
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scrappy200 :
I want to do casual team sports but everything seems to be competitive in my area
2025-06-27 13:23:27
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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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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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ImmortalSnail 🐌 🇨🇦 ᖭི༏ᖫྀ :
We’ve produced multiple Olympic medalists in figure skating? Who?
2025-06-26 03:15:15
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Carly 🇨🇦 :
…I coach equestrian sport. I have 2 streams - my hobbyists & my competitive. My personal issue? I find kids now are so over-scheduled, that even mastering a craft at a basic level is a challenge, because they have something going on 5-6 nights a week, in some cases MULTIPLE hobbies/sport interests. The kids never find true passion in a sport, and tend to just go thru motions…which leads to frustration when they aren’t excelling, peers surpass them OR they mentally can’t handle the challenging parts to push/learn thru, and in turn quit. I’m not sure if in some program/sport cases, the businesses are pushing for comp streams for this reason, AND/OR survival of the sport in itself. Everything is so expensive now (nevermind in my world…)…that people facilitating these sports are just struggling to survive what they are passionate about, just to keep these sports alive.
2025-07-18 05:35:39
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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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Keelan Brydon :
I quit dance at 13 cause it had to be competitive. I asked the studio owner if I could cut my classes down to 3x a week, cause I was at the studio 6 days a week, and I was told that wasn’t an option, so I quit.
2025-06-26 14:33:18
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Thrift Queen :
same when I was a kid figure skating in the 90s. Also ALL recreational sports stop at like 10/11 in the US. Which is insane cuz teens need wholesome activities the most!!!
2025-06-26 14:33:42
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ChicagoChelley✨️ :
it pisses me off so much. Kids being pressured to dp sports for careers now. it should be recreational not competitive. just like we bike for fun.
2025-06-29 07:24:15
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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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user992332076231 :
We’ve gotten push back because I said my kids likely won’t do competitive sports. My kids are in a variety of sports but I don’t really want to do the weekends travelling or think we can afford it. I don’t think it’s a need 🤷♀️
2025-06-26 13:04:38
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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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Shinx :
I also stopped all sport cause everyone took it so serious and it made it not fun
2025-06-27 04:04:31
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🏃♀️ :
Parents basically only want to pay for things that will “pay them back,” like an investment. Like if parents spend all that money on sports, they want their kid to get a college scholarship. I know why many parents have this mentality, but it’s kind of sad. And to be honest, spending all that money on these high level sports and activities could literally cost as much as a college education over the span of 18 years.
2025-07-23 07:16:57
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Marco!What!? :
I loved rec soccer as a kid, played from like 5 years old, but around 5th grade if we lost a game the coaches would punish us with a harder practice the following week… I didn’t care about winning, I just wanted to have fun running and playing with my friends/teammates. I quit after that season cause it became clear to me that all the coaches cared about was winning and that made the game not fun anymore.
2025-06-28 03:25:43
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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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Raskallion :
That's the reason I quit dance in high school. I ended up joining theater instead and was much happier without the pressure to compete.
2025-06-26 20:01:19
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