[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Parents that overdo it on the kids' extracurriculars make zero sense to me. I don't understand what the end goal is. And I don't think it's healthy to give up 15+ years of your own life in service of activities that are supposed to be fun. It's not modelling balance, it's not fair to yourself and you end up being a tired stressed out of boring person living for your kids to the detriment of your own life.

Better approach, imo, is to nurture activities that everyone in the family benefits from. Camping, hiking, biking, skiing, snowboarding, etc. Those are all things you can share as a family. Making your life all about running your kid around to activities and sabotaging your own weekends and evenings is absolutely senseless.

You can do a bit of both.

Before I registered my kids into any sport I asked them if they wanted to play, I didn't take it for granted.