So, am I missing something or are all childhood activities in sports and arts now run for those parents and children who want intense near-totalizing commitment?
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My wife remembers that in her day kids dance class organized to do some tap, ballet, and jazz across one long weekly class. Now it is three separate classes. Some kids thrive when they are pushed to be great and committed. But, even those kids should have recreational options.
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Replying to @michaelbd
It's nuts. I've seen some parents self-organize to have non-ultra-competitive recreational stuff that's more than "everyone gets a trophy" (so it's fun to push harder). Right now, especially as they get older, quickly morphs into "training for olympics, yeah!"
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I'm worried that social media is contributing too. Why bother having fun with photography, gardening, cooking, sport- if I can't be near the top of a now worldwide community of people doing it?
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What doesn't social media contribute to? One issue seems to be finding that local middle-ground because everyone-gets-a-trophy backlash isn't what works for kids either. They know winning is a thing—and many want to try for it. But can't function at the level of Olympics or bust.
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So once again, a thing at one scale (competitiveness, but locally) isn't the same thing if at another scale (competitiveness, but globally). Same with so many other things. Issue isn't the "thing" but the scale of it, but we focus on the thing as if that's the core issue.
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So you get a backlash against competitiveness, but that doesn't work because that's not something you can just decree away completely, and also it is not what's causing the mismatch. Anyway, I think parents should organize strictly local friendly but yeah, competitive recreation.
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