This has a community cost, too. Parents have their kids so busy with one sport so early that there's no time for hanging out, no time for anything else. In our small town neighborhood, we have a sweet little park the residents maintain because our city doesn't have enough money to do so. Work days are fun and let us get to know each othe…
This has a community cost, too. Parents have their kids so busy with one sport so early that there's no time for hanging out, no time for anything else. In our small town neighborhood, we have a sweet little park the residents maintain because our city doesn't have enough money to do so. Work days are fun and let us get to know each other. Families never participate in the park work days because their weekends are sports sports sports from preschool age. So our neighborhood has very little community unless you have similarly ages kids, and you're meeting at their structured sports events. Disclosure: My kids were not interested in sports thank god and were musicians, for the joy of it, not for the crazy kid music scene parents channel their non-athletic kids into. They're just like sports parents.
This has a community cost, too. Parents have their kids so busy with one sport so early that there's no time for hanging out, no time for anything else. In our small town neighborhood, we have a sweet little park the residents maintain because our city doesn't have enough money to do so. Work days are fun and let us get to know each other. Families never participate in the park work days because their weekends are sports sports sports from preschool age. So our neighborhood has very little community unless you have similarly ages kids, and you're meeting at their structured sports events. Disclosure: My kids were not interested in sports thank god and were musicians, for the joy of it, not for the crazy kid music scene parents channel their non-athletic kids into. They're just like sports parents.