Some of the most expensive sports are some of the most popular. Hockey included. To put it into perspective for you, I’m still going to use hockey as an example. For hockey, you need to buy the skates, the padding, the helmets, and all the necessary requirements to keep your kids safe. As well as a stick and, every time they break that stick, you’ll have to get a new stick. And every time their skates need to be repaired or anything like that, you have to pay for the repair or you’ll have to pay for new skates. Let’s throw figure skating and gymnastics into this. For figure skating and gymnastics, they both use costumes for the competition. Each costume, depending on where you get it, can range in price drastically. And most of the time coaches do require you to get multiple different costumes, so that way you’re not wearing the same costume over and over and over again. For figure skating you are required to buy your skates. As well as pay for private lessons. That applies to both figure skating and gymnastics. Especially if you’re going to go to the competition level. If you’re just doing it for fun, that doesn’t matter as much. In the beginning, you do individual competitions against the same people that you learn with and you have performances at the end of the season. If you’re looking at skiing or snowboarding, you’re buying the skis or the snowboard and all of your gear. Which can also cost a pretty penny. If you’re doing any sort of martial arts. Sometimes you have to pay for your uniform. You pay for the lessons, you pay for any gear that you may need, including any staffs or anything like that, as well as fees to go into competitions, which usually applies to any competition within any sport or most sports. The least expensive sport that I actually know of is actually swimming. Because the only things that you need to pay for are the lessons and the bathing suit, and then if you need goggles and a swim cap. If you’re doing baseball or softball, you also have the cost of the bats, the helmets, gloves, and safety gear.

Yes, putting your kids into sports is expensive. However, it is something that kids love to do. A lot of kids like to be active and to be active sometimes you have to give a little. Especially if they become passionate about the sport. I’ve talked to so many people who have done sports in the past. They developed real-world experience to do what they do at work. Especially if it’s a team sport, you actually learn to work within a team when you play a team-based sport.