For The Love Of The Game

[weekend4trvl]

She didn't feel what the adults told her she was supposed to feel..."passion". She was just playing a game of basketball(get the round ball thru the steel hoop). Like many of us parents and COACHES in TB we want our DD's/players to give up their first born to show us they really want it.The kids will tell you that it's just a game with a bat and a ball (if you listen). If they have the talent and some help from mom and dad they will continue to move up the ranks. Remember the personal trainer didn't make her 6'4".

[Lunatic Fringe]

I'm with Skarp on this one. By and large if kids are left to their own devices more times than not bad things happen. You also set yourself up for a lifetime of listening to "how could you let me quit...you didn't support me..." and other drivel that kids lay on their parents in the adult years.

I worked with a guy who supported his kids hard. Real hard. So hard that the school sent over someone from Children & Family Services to check him out. To his credit, he told her to get lost.

See, he lives in a small town where everyone "knows" everyones business. He helped coach his son in wrestling and trained him 7 days a week for 10 years. His son never quit and ended up getting a full ride to the University of Minnesota (Iowa & Northwestern also wanted him). He also competed in the Sydney Olympics and scored a Bronze in Greco Roman wrestling before he graduated from school.

The girls were in volleyball and he had them serve 100 balls over the net every night. He told me there were nights that they whined and bitched, however he said there was no whining or bitching when they made first team all conference and led the conference in aces in consecutive years.

My point is that this guy is/was demanding, even to the point where some in the community thought he was being too hard on his kids. He and his kids were playing a different game than the rest of the community. They played to win and excel not only in local competition, but in national & international competition. This takes a different level of commitment than his dipshit neighbor or some overstuffed busybody at school who's kids played soccer without keeping score or who insisted that all participants get the same medal regardless of result.

His kids wanted to excel and he helped them get to where they wanted to go. As the adult, he had a more clear picture of what it was going to take to get there than his kids. The boy had enough talent to go all the way and did.

[Demonboy]

"""""""""""The video game industry has targeted athletic female fastpitch players and have come up with a game for them. Candrea 09 will be released at the end of February....still some bugs they need to work out....It won't let you allow Nueveman to do anything but bunt into double plays....and no matter what team you put together, it loses to Japan. It will let you put together a fantasy team called "Wilson University"...with head coach Crystal Meth and pitching coach Vi Codin...and hitting coach Mary J. Wana.""""""""""""

Enjoyed this a little to much, I am starting to feel a little bad..........

Funny, I'm laughing my a$$ off with no remorse.

[Demonboy]

I'm with Skarp on this one. By and large if kids are left to their own devices more times than not bad things happen. You also set yourself up for a lifetime of listening to "how could you let me quit...you didn't support me..." and other drivel that kids lay on their parents in the adult years.

I worked with a guy who supported his kids hard. Real hard. So hard that the school sent over someone from Children & Family Services to check him out. To his credit, he told her to get lost.

See, he lives in a small town where everyone "knows" everyones business. He helped coach his son in wrestling and trained him 7 days a week for 10 years. His son never quit and ended up getting a full ride to the University of Minnesota (Iowa & Northwestern also wanted him). He also competed in the Sydney Olympics and scored a Bronze in Greco Roman wrestling before he graduated from school.

The girls were in volleyball and he had them serve 100 balls over the net every night. He told me there were nights that they whined and bitched, however he said there was no whining or bitching when they made first team all conference and led the conference in aces in consecutive years.

My point is that this guy is/was demanding, even to the point where some in the community thought he was being too hard on his kids. He and his kids were playing a different game than the rest of the community. They played to win and excel not only in local competition, but in national & international competition. This takes a different level of commitment than his dipshit neighbor or some overstuffed busybody at school who's kids played soccer without keeping score or who insisted that all participants get the same medal regardless of result.

His kids wanted to excel and he helped them get to where they wanted to go. As the adult, he had a more clear picture of what it was going to take to get there than his kids. The boy had enough talent to go all the way and did.

Of course some of the do gooders on this board would cite "parental ego".

[Lunatic Fringe]

Of course some of the do gooders on this board would cite "parental ego".

Of course.

I won't deny that I've got some ego tied into my daughters play. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima frickin' culpa.

[Blind Squirrel]

I won't deny that I've got some ego tied into my daughters play. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima frickin' culpa.

Why? Just curious. If you mean pride in her when she does well, the same pride as when she comes home with a good report card, I get it. Me too. However, MY ego is unaffected by either of my kid's relative playing abilities. I'm not the one playing. I'm just the one praying.

John

[Lunatic Fringe]

Exactly