Children's organized sports--helpful long-term afterwards?

[OakLeaf]

I would never have discovered the joy of physical challenge if I hadn't been exposed to it in high school, I'm 100% sure of that.

I'm probably different from most though, because it was something I did against my parents. First to become physically strong as part of a fantasy of resistance, and soon after when I discovered I was good at soccer, as something that they placed zero value on, that could be mine without being appropriated by them.



ETA - just realized how that ties into my new sig line. Sweeeet.



OTOH, for DH, pretty much anything organized, including sports, became an occasion for bullying, and so he's not only pretty sedentary, but vehemently opposed to pretty much anything organized. Sigh. So, if you can glean anything from two people's completely opposite experiences, maybe it's that you can't generalize about any activity without knowing the specifics of the people involved.