Son started an unusual and expensive EC in second grade. Once a week we had to go straight from school to the EC, eating dinner on the road and returning home at bedtime, all with his little sisters in tow. The commitment became greater as his training progressed.
He’s now a business owner, doing exactly what he started training for at the age of 8. I don’t think he can imagine himself doing anything else. I’ve wondered what he’d be doing today if way back then we’d decided it was too much, which would have been a perfectly reasonable decision.