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    Girls Club Soccer is a Waste of Family Time and Money

    DO NOT get suckered into competitive soccer! Every holiday and most weekends will be spent with strangers away from home. Then before you know it, your girl is grown, and you no longer can get that time back. Your time is better spend letting her play locally in a recreational league, and then focus on academics, and other local activities. Holidays should be spent with family, as you can never get that time back.

    Sincerely,
    A parent that has learned the hard way

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    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    DO NOT get suckered into competitive soccer! Every holiday and most weekends will be spent with strangers away from home. Then before you know it, your girl is grown, and you no longer can get that time back. Your time is better spend letting her play locally in a recreational league, and then focus on academics, and other local activities. Holidays should be spent with family, as you can never get that time back.

    Sincerely,
    A parent that has learned the hard way
    Why would it be limited to girls only? Same time and effort spent on boys soccer, no? Everyone has their own reasons for playing travel and everyone is entitled to their opinions. I will respect your opinion.

    Just from another point of view, being that I don't have blood family here, my family considers our soccer family--family--and don't mind spending time with them. We look forward to some of those long weekends.

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      #3
      funny

      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      DO NOT get suckered into competitive soccer! Every holiday and most weekends will be spent with strangers away from home. Then before you know it, your girl is grown, and you no longer can get that time back. Your time is better spend letting her play locally in a recreational league, and then focus on academics, and other local activities. Holidays should be spent with family, as you can never get that time back.

      Sincerely,
      A parent that has learned the hard way
      This thought applies to all athletic activities your child will enjoy where there are coaches and trainers who earn a few dollars helping you kid develop. My daughter was telling me last night about how her child(8) took a fencing class...guess what...she was seen by the supreme trainer of fencing who wanted to immediately sign her up. She is a natural, in his broken English he said.

      How about modeling? acting? music?

      you need to think for yourself, enjoy the ride and not allow yourself to be taken to the cleaners.

      my 2 cents.

      My view is it keeps them in shape, off the streets and out of the mall. If they really have a passion for it, may even teach some time management skills.

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        #4
        "...spent with strangers away from home"??? Those are our best friends! In fact they're our only friends! I'm worried about what we'll do for holidays when our youngest leaves for college? Does NCAA play on Mother's Day? Memorial Day? President's Day? What to do?????

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          #5
          The OP couldn't have a more backward opinion. Hey bud, welcome to the 21st century. it's 2014, not 1914. You can say people are entitled to their opinion, and yes, that's true, no matter how radical it is, right? This OPINION, forced on vunerable kids, can be life altering. it is a step backward for women, not forward. When you can come back on here and say the exact thing for the boys, i might listen.

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            #6
            The OP couldn't have a more backward opinion. Hey bud, welcome to the 21st century. it's 2014, not 1914. You can say people are entitled to their opinion, and yes, that's true, no matter how radical it is, right? This OPINION, forced on vunerable kids, can be life altering. it is a step backward for women, not forward. When you can come back on here and say the exact thing for the boys, i might listen.

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              #7
              Next, you'll probably be telling me that my wife has been sleeping with the coach and my daughter is a lesbian.......because of soccer. Merry Christmas, buttmunch.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                DO NOT get suckered into competitive soccer! Every holiday and most weekends will be spent with strangers away from home. Then before you know it, your girl is grown, and you no longer can get that time back. Your time is better spend letting her play locally in a recreational league, and then focus on academics, and other local activities. Holidays should be spent with family, as you can never get that time back.

                Sincerely,
                A parent that has learned the hard way
                Our experience could not be any different than this! After 5 year of competitive soccer it has radically changed my daughter's life for the better. She was chubby and eating poorly. Then a coach saw potential in her and encouraged her and after 5 years she has transformed herself into an elite athlete. Her boy image of herself has improved 500%, she has made great friends, she is confident walking the hallways at school when she sees team-mates. Someone mentioned time-management and it has forced her to develop time management skills and she is carrying straight A's.

                It's true, we're driving 4-hours each way for a single game tomorrow on a busy weekend near a Holiday but that means I have 8 hours in the car with my daughter! We'll cover a lot of ground about what she is up to.

                Sorry the original poster regrets their bad experience but we can't say enough positive things about ours!

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  DO NOT get suckered into competitive soccer! Every holiday and most weekends will be spent with strangers away from home. Then before you know it, your girl is grown, and you no longer can get that time back. Your time is better spend letting her play locally in a recreational league, and then focus on academics, and other local activities. Holidays should be spent with family, as you can never get that time back.

                  Sincerely,
                  A parent that has learned the hard way
                  Sounds to me like you may have a lot of issues going on and youth soccer may be the least of them.

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                    #10
                    Yeah, whatever

                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    DO NOT get suckered into competitive soccer! Every holiday and most weekends will be spent with strangers away from home. Then before you know it, your girl is grown, and you no longer can get that time back. Your time is better spend letting her play locally in a recreational league, and then focus on academics, and other local activities. Holidays should be spent with family, as you can never get that time back.

                    Sincerely,
                    A parent that has learned the hard way
                    Sounds like YOU were the one with grandiose delusions that your daughter would be the best player and get a scholarship to some elite school somewhere. You probably kept pushing her year end and year out to play for the team you thought was the best. At the end she ended up hating you for making her do something she didn't want to do and moved out when old enough. All you remember was probably all the frustrating games and times you had with her arguing about how she could have played better. All of these years when you could have just tried to relax, enjoy the fact that she's playing organize sports and keeping fit instead of laying in the backseat of someone's car. You could have talked to and made friends with the families in the club and made life long friends. You took the extreme route and it didn't work out and you regret it. Boohoo!!

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Sounds like YOU were the one with grandiose delusions that your daughter would be the best player and get a scholarship to some elite school somewhere. You probably kept pushing her year end and year out to play for the team you thought was the best. At the end she ended up hating you for making her do something she didn't want to do and moved out when old enough. All you remember was probably all the frustrating games and times you had with her arguing about how she could have played better. All of these years when you could have just tried to relax, enjoy the fact that she's playing organize sports and keeping fit instead of laying in the backseat of someone's car. You could have talked to and made friends with the families in the club and made life long friends. You took the extreme route and it didn't work out and you regret it. Boohoo!!
                      Well said.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Sounds like YOU were the one with grandiose delusions that your daughter would be the best player and get a scholarship to some elite school somewhere. You probably kept pushing her year end and year out to play for the team you thought was the best. At the end she ended up hating you for making her do something she didn't want to do and moved out when old enough. All you remember was probably all the frustrating games and times you had with her arguing about how she could have played better. All of these years when you could have just tried to relax, enjoy the fact that she's playing organize sports and keeping fit instead of laying in the backseat of someone's car. You could have talked to and made friends with the families in the club and made life long friends. You took the extreme route and it didn't work out and you regret it. Boohoo!!
                        I think you just described their situation perfectly.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Sounds like YOU were the one with grandiose delusions that your daughter would be the best player and get a scholarship to some elite school somewhere. You probably kept pushing her year end and year out to play for the team you thought was the best. At the end she ended up hating you for making her do something she didn't want to do and moved out when old enough. All you remember was probably all the frustrating games and times you had with her arguing about how she could have played better. All of these years when you could have just tried to relax, enjoy the fact that she's playing organize sports and keeping fit instead of laying in the backseat of someone's car. You could have talked to and made friends with the families in the club and made life long friends. You took the extreme route and it didn't work out and you regret it. Boohoo!!
                          I think your kid was in my son's back seat last night, I guess the organized sport thing did not work out too well for her. Now.........do you see how stupid you sound?:( Do not attack people that are just expressing an opinion. Your assumtions are just that......

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                            #14
                            nailed it!

                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Sounds like YOU were the one with grandiose delusions that your daughter would be the best player and get a scholarship to some elite school somewhere. You probably kept pushing her year end and year out to play for the team you thought was the best. At the end she ended up hating you for making her do something she didn't want to do and moved out when old enough. All you remember was probably all the frustrating games and times you had with her arguing about how she could have played better. All of these years when you could have just tried to relax, enjoy the fact that she's playing organize sports and keeping fit instead of laying in the backseat of someone's car. You could have talked to and made friends with the families in the club and made life long friends. You took the extreme route and it didn't work out and you regret it. Boohoo!!
                            Spot on!

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              Spot on!
                              keep anwswering your own crap.......you are still a moron!!

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