glowingfish

So I was part of a generation with organized social activities though my parents did keep me out of most of the event-type ones, but from what I saw from other kids (and then from when I worked in childcare for a bit), it seemed that a lot of the children were put in those activities by the parents themselves (either because they needed something to keep the kids occupied or for bragging rights), so it was less about validating the child's own hobby/aspiration but more about seeing if they'd done well in what they had essentially been asked to do.

In comparison, my friends who did music and ballet because they wanted to didn't really care about if their parents could make it (but they did expect a decent excuse).