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Collectively, A Thread To Celebrate Our Kids Athletic Accomplishments (1 Viewer)

In hindsight we should have held my daughter back. She is a September birthday. We figured as a female no big deal. She definitely packed a little maturity wise and blossomed her freshman year of college.

She turned 18 September of freshman year in college. Lol
late august here and same thing the worst part was still having to drive her everywhere her sophmore year take that to the bank brochacho
Well here you don't get your license till you're 17 so she didn't drive until the start of her senior year
NYC public schools don't allow redshirting and are based on the calendar year. So Jan bdays are the oldest.
 
In hindsight we should have held my daughter back. She is a September birthday. We figured as a female no big deal. She definitely packed a little maturity wise and blossomed her freshman year of college.

She turned 18 September of freshman year in college. Lol
late august here and same thing the worst part was still having to drive her everywhere her sophmore year take that to the bank brochacho
Well here you don't get your license till you're 17 so she didn't drive until the start of her senior year
NYC public schools don't allow redshirting and are based on the calendar year. So Jan bdays are the oldest.
It wouldn't be redshirting. We have the option since 10/1 is the cutoff

Sounds like if we were in NY it would have been like I said if we held her back. Our way she started school when she was 4 years old
 
I never ever considered holding him back for baseball. I just got him into school when he was supposed to go. I have zero regrets about that.
Being a March kid you really didn't have a choice. It mainly is for kids in the September-December time frame as you can start. My decision was startin Kindergarten at 4 and turning 5 in October or starting at 5 and turning 6. We chose the latter which allowed him to be 18 essentially his entire senior year.
 
I never ever considered holding him back for baseball. I just got him into school when he was supposed to go. I have zero regrets about that.
Being a March kid you really didn't have a choice. It mainly is for kids in the September-December time frame as you can start. My decision was startin Kindergarten at 4 and turning 5 in October or starting at 5 and turning 6. We chose the latter which allowed him to be 18 essentially his entire senior year.
I knew kids that my son played with who were held back two years….not kidding. Most were held back a full year (re-classed) but a few who were held back two years and one of them aged out for high school sports eligibility.

Some parents are ****ing lunatics.

Yeah March we had no choice.
 
Ok so hold up. We've got a 9-month old and are about 5 weeks from the second one. Been thinking about hoping the second one is more or less ready and putting them in school a year early-ish so they are same grade.

Sounds like I should maybe consider the reverse?

PS athletic accomplishment - crawled across the room, nonstop!
 
Sounds like I should maybe consider the reverse?
I mean everyone is different and sport maturity on the back end is just one factor. In general starting a kid later has a lot of advantages but sometimes the kid could be bored school wise if they are too old for their grade.

As far as having two kiss in the same grade, I don't think I would want to do that to them. Competition etc between siblings that close will always be high. Being in the same grade may make it worse. I would want to separate them so they kind of have their own space.
 
Ok so hold up. We've got a 9-month old and are about 5 weeks from the second one. Been thinking about hoping the second one is more or less ready and putting them in school a year early-ish so they are same grade.

Sounds like I should maybe consider the reverse?

PS athletic accomplishment - crawled across the room, nonstop!
Lol....I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just saying looking back it might have been better

But this is her path and it's worked out for the most part so far. With some bumps along the way
 
@Todem my daughter plays SS, 2b and the entire OF if need be. She played mostly right last year when not playing second

Maybe we should introduce them..... :oldunsure:

Wait.......

:lol:
 
Gally Jr is back for Thanksgiving so I had a chance to actually sit and talk about how things are going and how he sees thing shaking out.

He said the head coach took the pitchers aside this week and said he has penciled in his 1, 2, 3 starting pitchers and #4 is up for grabs. My son doesn't think he is in line for that even though the thinks he has performed well enough to be in the discussion. Mainly because he is a freshman. Apparently after winter break the coach has divided the team up with regards to return dates to have the "starters" come back earlier than everyone by about a week. Gally Jr was not one of the freshman that were requested to return early. All that seems to contradict the end of fall status report that he told my son on the one on one's where he said he was closer to the top 3rd of players than the bottom 3rd and definitely in the top half.

He also said that when they fly they only bring 25 guys (which seems light to me). Their first games in late January is a 4 game tournament over three days. I would be surprised if they brought less than 15-16 pitchers which seems like it would be tough to do with a travel roster of 25. The numbers don't seem to make sense to me. But again this is all second hand from my kid so who knows for sure. It's still another two months away where a lot can happen.

I asked him about the two freshman pitchers that were asked to come back early and how he though he compared to them. He said he was better but they were more "projectable". One guy is 6-8 and the other guy 6-4. He said they were good but inconsistent and that he was more refined and a better "pitcher". Hopefully the coach isn't going that route even if eventually that should all shake out as they will either perform or not.

Not a great feeling about the travel roster but I keep telling him there is time to change the coaches mind and to keep working. Also, they handed out uniforms and had the media picture day. He somehow lucked into getting his number. He said the coach just randomly assigned numbers and somehow he got the number he wanted. He was pretty excited about that.
 
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Gally Jr is back for Thanksgiving so I had a chance to actually sit and talk about how things are going and how he sees thing shaking out.

He said the head coach took the pitchers aside this week and said he has penciled in his 1, 2, 3 starting pitchers and #4 is up for grabs. My son doesn't think he is in line for that even though the thinks he has performed well enough to be in the discussion. Mainly because he is a freshman. Apparently after winter break the coach has divided the team up with regards to return dates to have the "starters" come back earlier than everyone by about a week. Gally Jr was not one of the freshman that were requested to return early. All that seems to contradict the end of fall status report that he told my son on the one on one's where he said he was closer to the top 3rd of players than the bottom 3rd and definitely in the top half.

He also said that when they fly they only bring 25 guys (which seems light to me). Their first games in late January is a 4 game tournament over three days. I would be surprised if they brought less than 15-16 pitchers which seems like it would be tough to do with a travel roster of 25. The numbers don't seem to make sense to me. But again this is all second hand from my kid so who knows for sure. It's still another two months away where a lot can happen.

I asked him about the two freshman pitchers that were asked to come back early and how he though he compared to them. He said he was better but they were more "projectable". One guy is 6-8 and the other guy 6-4. He said they were good but inconsistent and that he was more refined and a better "pitcher". Hopefully the coach isn't going that route even if eventually that should all shake out as they will either perform or not.

Not a great feeling about the travel roster but I keep telling him there is time to change the coaches mind and to keep working. Also, they handed out uniforms and had the media picture day. He somehow lucked into getting his number. He said the coach just randomly assigned numbers and somehow he got the number he wanted. He was pretty excited about that.
He just needs to keep grinding. 25 players on the bus is about right. My sons team takes 30 max on the bus for road trips. Sometimes it was 25. Depends on injuries, grades (oh you mean I have to do good in school to play? Yep at my sons school if you are ****ing off....yer not dressing no matter who you are). In fact their number one Saturday starter is not dressing opening weekend due to class attendance. He was already told that. I like that there is accountability where my son plays.

Freshman year is always the toughest. Especially for guys who don't jump off the page physically. My son...a position player as you know....was on the JV out of the gate and no freshman position players were even dressing varsity last season. By midseason he started on varsity 4 straight games and dressed for every game after.

Pitchers....yes...pitchers always get priority regardless of class. So he needs to keep battling and making the most of any opportunity that presents itself. Injuries will happen, poor performances will happen, school issues will happen. Cream always rises to the top and he will get there if he just keeps working. I would not read into it too much. While it may seem disappointing right now......the journey is really just beginning.
 
25 players on the bus is about right. My sons team takes 30 max on the bus for road trips. Sometimes it was 25.

I think it's 25 for when they fly. Their first tournament they will be flying. I don't think he knows what the number is for busses. The way he said they only take 25 when they flay makes it seem like they take more for bus trips.

That being said, since he is a two way guy (pitches and plays infield) I would think that should give him a leg upon being in that group as he covers a lot of holes in a pinch. Only time will tell.
 
25 players on the bus is about right. My sons team takes 30 max on the bus for road trips. Sometimes it was 25.

I think it's 25 for when they fly. Their first tournament they will be flying. I don't think he knows what the number is for busses. The way he said they only take 25 when they flay makes it seem like they take more for bus trips.

That being said, since he is a two way guy (pitches and plays infield) I would think that should give him a leg upon being in that group as he covers a lot of holes in a pinch. Only time will tell.
My useless advice.....a tad different as softball only carries 18-22 at d3......try not to let it get you down or him and really try not to discuss after games if he doesn't play. I started falling into that a little when I know how much better little belljr was than the 2 second baseman they kept trotting out there........ It's a long season and eventually his shot will come. I can only speak to the story I was told by my kid so it was tough to decipher why she was not playing based on "what I know".

Once she got the nod having other parents validate her and even telling her how proud and awesome it was for her to seize her opportunity, it made "us" feel better.... These are people she barely knows.

Anyway try to stay positive. Sometimes coaches like to have the known get some slack before the unknown
 
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25 players on the bus is about right. My sons team takes 30 max on the bus for road trips. Sometimes it was 25.

I think it's 25 for when they fly. Their first tournament they will be flying. I don't think he knows what the number is for busses. The way he said they only take 25 when they flay makes it seem like they take more for bus trips.

That being said, since he is a two way guy (pitches and plays infield) I would think that should give him a leg upon being in that group as he covers a lot of holes in a pinch. Only time will tell.
My useless advice.....a tad different as softball only carries 18-22 at d3......try not to let it get you down or him and really try not to discuss after games if he doesn't play. I started falling into that a little when I know how much better little belljr was than the 2 second baseman they kept trotting out there........ It's a long season and eventually his shot will come. I can only speak to the story I was told by my kid so it was tough to decipher why she was not playing based on "what I know".

Once she got the nod having other parents validate her and even telling her how proud and awesome it was for her to seize her opportunity.... These are people she barely knows.

Anyway try to stay positive. Sometimes coaches like to have the known get some slack before the unknown
I appreciate the advice. It's definitely a new experience for me not seeing him at practice combined with not knowing the other players at all. I could definitely see myself trying to interrogate him after games etc.....hahahaha.

I am being positive in our discussions and trying to impart the coaches viewpoint as far as doing little things like extra work etc. But of course he knows better and thinks my suggestions are dumb. haha. Not a surprise at all.

He is having fun so either way it's been a win for him whether he plays or not this year.
 
Floppinha had 2 UTR tennis matches last night, and despite going 1-1, played some fantastic tennis in both the win and the loss,both against boys a year older than her.

Best shes hit probably ever, and the serving was lights out too...feel like she's turning a corner with her hitting, now needs to work on strategy and court generalship along with some more technical shots- defensive stabs (which she always pops up meekly to the short center of the court) and straight up lobs...neither of which she's ever really learned how to do in classes or lessons.
 
Random question but has anyone tried using Boxbollen with their kids to entertain and help hand/eye?
Nope but we did tennis ball on the wall. Two handed

Basically toss a ball from a few feet and catch using 2 at once
Great drill! I do that (or similar) with my 7-yr-old golfer/baseball player but he and my younger get bored pretty quick. Thinking of rainy day type fun with some productivity. This thing looks like it could be cheaply made and tough for small kids though.
 
Random question but has anyone tried using Boxbollen with their kids to entertain and help hand/eye?
Nope but we did tennis ball on the wall. Two handed

Basically toss a ball from a few feet and catch using 2 at once
Nope, but my son would take one of those balls that is lumpy and would bounce in all kind of directions and throw it against the chimney in the backyard and practice fielding ground balls and play a nine inning game in his head. He would alternate between that crazy bounce ball and a racquetball. It really helped his hands, quick release, accuracy, short hops, long hops, etc. Because of the bricks on the chimney the ball would bounce in crazy directions and it required a quick reaction and hands to pick it clean. He spent hours and hours doing this. It was amazing at how good his hands are for a middle infielder because he was doing this since he was 4 yrs old.

ETA: He came up with this all on his own.
 
First club volleyball tournament this weekend. And of COURSE it's the first weekend of fantasy football playoffs, so I will miss pretty much all of Sunday's NFL action since my wife works on Sundays and I can't miss the kid's first tourney for "fantasy football".

The kid made her 8th grade team, too. Which means club practice on M/T/W this week and school practice on Th/F leading into the tourney on Sat/Sun. Whew.
 
First club volleyball tournament this weekend. And of COURSE it's the first weekend of fantasy football playoffs, so I will miss pretty much all of Sunday's NFL action since my wife works on Sundays and I can't miss the kid's first tourney for "fantasy football".

The kid made her 8th grade team, too. Which means club practice on M/T/W this week and school practice on Th/F leading into the tourney on Sat/Sun. Whew.
Yea, I have had a pass on club/school vball because my daughter hasn't got clearance yet but the Dr appointment is the 18th which the expectation is that she will be cleared then. And then my life gets even more busy/complicated: Club/School VBall for her, HC two BBall teams for my boys, both Boys are supposed to be in swim (but that has been getting sacrificed recently) and the one boy is in BJJ (also has been getting sacrificed). I have no clue how single parents do this as normal life. I can't wait for my wife to be back up and able to do things again.
 
First club volleyball tournament this weekend. And of COURSE it's the first weekend of fantasy football playoffs, so I will miss pretty much all of Sunday's NFL action since my wife works on Sundays and I can't miss the kid's first tourney for "fantasy football".

The kid made her 8th grade team, too. Which means club practice on M/T/W this week and school practice on Th/F leading into the tourney on Sat/Sun. Whew.
Yea, I have had a pass on club/school vball because my daughter hasn't got clearance yet but the Dr appointment is the 18th which the expectation is that she will be cleared then. And then my life gets even more busy/complicated: Club/School VBall for her, HC two BBall teams for my boys, both Boys are supposed to be in swim (but that has been getting sacrificed recently) and the one boy is in BJJ (also has been getting sacrificed). I have no clue how single parents do this as normal life. I can't wait for my wife to be back up and able to do things again.
I know you made the commitment and it's your kids, but do you think it would be helpful for your own sanity in the coming months to look to pass on those HC gigs?
 
I have no clue how single parents do this as normal life.
They don't pile on things on top of each other. You are in the 99th percentile of activities. It's one thing to have one sport for each kid at a time but to have 2 or 3 or 4 things for each kid piled on top of each other. It's almost like you are trying to balance all the kids that specialize in one thing by doing everything. hahahahaha

I am exhausted just reading about everything your kids do. I thought we were busy with never having a break but we didn't have multiple teams/sports/etc going on at once. Daughter had soccer and softball and son had soccer, basketball and baseball. Only one team for each sport and only a cross over between sports for maybe a week or two. You can limit things to keep your sanity. The bad part was missing one of the kids stuff because both kids had stuff going on so we had to divide and conquer between kids/parents. It was a great thing when one of the kids had a weekend off so both parents could watch one of the kids games. There were a couple summers where we were gone every weekend for 8-10 straight weeks.

I would likely try and limit the multiple obligations during the same season for everyone's sanity.
 
Random question but has anyone tried using Boxbollen with their kids to entertain and help hand/eye?
My youngest son loved this and used it often. He's been taking Karate for 5 years and this has definitely helped his hand/eye coordination. My other son who plays baseball, not so much :lmao: He gets too frustrated and I think a little jealous that his younger brother can land multiple hits in a row and he only musters one or two (if he's lucky).
 
First club volleyball tournament this weekend. And of COURSE it's the first weekend of fantasy football playoffs, so I will miss pretty much all of Sunday's NFL action since my wife works on Sundays and I can't miss the kid's first tourney for "fantasy football".

The kid made her 8th grade team, too. Which means club practice on M/T/W this week and school practice on Th/F leading into the tourney on Sat/Sun. Whew.
Been missing a lot of football the last few years for softball. Most times I try avoid the scores and watch the Vikings in tape delay. Others like this past weekend I peeked at the scores here and there.
 
First club volleyball tournament this weekend. And of COURSE it's the first weekend of fantasy football playoffs, so I will miss pretty much all of Sunday's NFL action since my wife works on Sundays and I can't miss the kid's first tourney for "fantasy football".

The kid made her 8th grade team, too. Which means club practice on M/T/W this week and school practice on Th/F leading into the tourney on Sat/Sun. Whew.
Yea, I have had a pass on club/school vball because my daughter hasn't got clearance yet but the Dr appointment is the 18th which the expectation is that she will be cleared then. And then my life gets even more busy/complicated: Club/School VBall for her, HC two BBall teams for my boys, both Boys are supposed to be in swim (but that has been getting sacrificed recently) and the one boy is in BJJ (also has been getting sacrificed). I have no clue how single parents do this as normal life. I can't wait for my wife to be back up and able to do things again.
I know you made the commitment and it's your kids, but do you think it would be helpful for your own sanity in the coming months to look to pass on those HC gigs?
The coaching is a time and energy drain which I don't have a ton of extra of right now but it is also a big mental break for me. I enjoy being with the kids and focusing on them and basketball gives me a time of not thinking about the schedule or worried about my wife and so forth. I kind of shut off and go into coach mode and that feels good for me. No other part of my life right now gives me that. Plus, whether it would be or not, I would feel like I was letting my boys down and that would wear on me more than the time and energy subtraction of doing it. My wife should be close to being able to operate normally in life for the most part in about 2 months and then once she does things get easier and then basketball season would wrap up. Spring is our easy season... my daughter's club vball goes a bit into it but after that she is done. The school sports are not anywhere near a time commitment that football or basketball are and I will not be coaching at all.
 
First club volleyball tournament this weekend. And of COURSE it's the first weekend of fantasy football playoffs, so I will miss pretty much all of Sunday's NFL action since my wife works on Sundays and I can't miss the kid's first tourney for "fantasy football".

The kid made her 8th grade team, too. Which means club practice on M/T/W this week and school practice on Th/F leading into the tourney on Sat/Sun. Whew.
Yea, I have had a pass on club/school vball because my daughter hasn't got clearance yet but the Dr appointment is the 18th which the expectation is that she will be cleared then. And then my life gets even more busy/complicated: Club/School VBall for her, HC two BBall teams for my boys, both Boys are supposed to be in swim (but that has been getting sacrificed recently) and the one boy is in BJJ (also has been getting sacrificed). I have no clue how single parents do this as normal life. I can't wait for my wife to be back up and able to do things again.
Whew! I'm somewhat glad my son's flag football team takes the winter season off. Come March/April, though, we will be even more slammed with not only the daughter's club volleyball team but son's football practices and games.
 
My son plays lax in college but hockey was his first love, and he went to a high school that has very good hockey program. His senior year they lost two games, including the final in the New England Prep championship. Four years out that entire roster has moved on to college and a bunch of the boys are playing college hockey. I love following their college careers, checking box scores every Monday to see how they all did over the weekend. I ran into another dad from that team over the weekend and he pointed out that 15 of 24 kids on that team are playing in college (6 D1/10 D3), with another 4 playing college lax. Only 5 of 24 are not on a college sports roster. A few I hadn't realized were still playing until I just went through it. Colleges they attend:

D1 Hockey: Harvard, Dartmouth, Northeastern*, Yale, Boston College*, Quinnipiac
D3 Hockey: Wesleyan (2), Bowdoin, Tufts, Trinity, Conn College, Union, Williams, Hobart
D1 Lax: Dartmouth, Brown, Virginia
D3 Lax: Babson
* NHL draft pick

I really miss being in a hockey rink, this time of year especially. It was an absolute wagon of athletes, mostly very smart, all good citizens.
 
My son plays lax in college but hockey was his first love, and he went to a high school that has very good hockey program. His senior year they lost two games, including the final in the New England Prep championship. Four years out that entire roster has moved on to college and a bunch of the boys are playing college hockey. I love following their college careers, checking box scores every Monday to see how they all did over the weekend. I ran into another dad from that team over the weekend and he pointed out that 15 of 24 kids on that team are playing in college (6 D1/10 D3), with another 4 playing college lax. Only 5 of 24 are not on a college sports roster. A few I hadn't realized were still playing until I just went through it. Colleges they attend:

D1 Hockey: Harvard, Dartmouth, Northeastern*, Yale, Boston College*, Quinnipiac
D3 Hockey: Wesleyan (2), Bowdoin, Tufts, Trinity, Conn College, Union, Williams, Hobart
D1 Lax: Dartmouth, Brown, Virginia
D3 Lax: Babson
* NHL draft pick

I really miss being in a hockey rink, this time of year especially. It was an absolute wagon of athletes, mostly very smart, all good citizens.
That's a lot of great schools.. wow!
 
I have no clue how single parents do this as normal life.
They don't pile on things on top of each other. You are in the 99th percentile of activities. It's one thing to have one sport for each kid at a time but to have 2 or 3 or 4 things for each kid piled on top of each other. It's almost like you are trying to balance all the kids that specialize in one thing by doing everything. hahahahaha

I am exhausted just reading about everything your kids do. I thought we were busy with never having a break but we didn't have multiple teams/sports/etc going on at once. Daughter had soccer and softball and son had soccer, basketball and baseball. Only one team for each sport and only a cross over between sports for maybe a week or two. You can limit things to keep your sanity. The bad part was missing one of the kids stuff because both kids had stuff going on so we had to divide and conquer between kids/parents. It was a great thing when one of the kids had a weekend off so both parents could watch one of the kids games. There were a couple summers where we were gone every weekend for 8-10 straight weeks.

I would likely try and limit the multiple obligations during the same season for everyone's sanity.
I feel like swim, which adds on through the year may end up ending or a season being skipped. Which I really dislike but it is easily the least favorite sport of my boys and is a big time and effort commitment for them. I hate the thought of it because my older son has so much potential in it and the HS coaches already know who he is (my SIL was talking to the coach and it came up and she was surprised... I as well as we haven't had any contact with them and I don't think they are ever at any of our meets or anything) and the conditioning he gets from it with such low risk of injury is unbeatable for him with his other sports. Though I would encourage them to keep at it, I am not going to force them and I get the sense the older one is very close to ending it. If the older one does, my guess is the younger one will follow his lead. If that happens, things simplify a ton.

It is a lot. I know it seems like I push this all on them but I don't. I do enjoy my kids doing whatever they are doing- I much rather go to my daughters vball tournament than watch an NFL game or whatever else. For me, the time/energy is well spent and enjoyable. I do take care to keep the kids balanced and that they have plenty of time to do whatever that isn't sport related. I never make them practice at home or anything because they do need that time (though I still wouldn't make them but I would push/encourage it a whole lot more if they were not as busy).

I give them 'days off' of not having to go to practice before when they needed it. A lot more recently because of everything going on.

This may be the last year of my daughter doing club/school vball at the same time as she goes to HS and I think there are rules on how club/school works that they basically can't do both at the same time. I don't know, I will have to find out more info on that soon. Other than that, she has played basketball but I don't know if she will even try to in HS and if she doesn't play for school she wouldn't play outside of school. She did mention she had interest in doing flag football. But we shall see how that unfolds.... but overall, things will change with her after this year.

My older son, with the swim, is usually the only doubling up he has with football and basketball.... and football there is no doubling up as he just misses the start of swim season until football is over. Basketball takes priority over swim because he likes it much more and I coach it. In spring, he did do soccer and track last year but soccer for the school is almost like zero time commitment... they have done like 4 practices in 3 years total and many of the games get rained out or the field is muddy, but it scratches his soccer itch. Track has a few practices right after school so the only thing for me is having to pick him up later and then meets which there are not a ton of.... I think 4 or 5 from last year. He did say he wanted to do volleyball this year. And I don't know what that looks like for boys.

My younger son, is similar and swim is the big thing. He started BJJ but that is pretty flexible with practice time and there is no commitment to compete unless we want to. Other than that, he will do school football, basketball and then soccer a couple of years before he can add track or volleyball if he wanted.

As long as it isn't too much for them and they are enjoying it then I am fine with the hectic nature of it and making it work. This is a season in life and when it is gone, I will miss it. In "normal" times with the wife, it works out pretty well. Right now, just a little harder to keep on it.
 
I give them 'days off' of not having to go to practice before when they needed it. A lot more recently because of everything going on.
As long as it isn't too much for them

These are warning signs to me. The fact they have to miss practices for teams they are committed to seems like a bad thing. It's not fair to those teams or coaches. If my kids were asking to miss practice because they are too tired from everything going on I would be pulling things off the table as soon as possible. You know your kids/family better than me but those would be huge warning signs for me that it is way too much.

This time goes fast for sure but you also need to breath to enjoy this time as much as possible.
 
I give them 'days off' of not having to go to practice before when they needed it. A lot more recently because of everything going on.
As long as it isn't too much for them

These are warning signs to me. The fact they have to miss practices for teams they are committed to seems like a bad thing. It's not fair to those teams or coaches. If my kids were asking to miss practice because they are too tired from everything going on I would be pulling things off the table as soon as possible. You know your kids/family better than me but those would be huge warning signs for me that it is way too much.

This time goes fast for sure but you also need to breath to enjoy this time as much as possible.
I know we're all well meaning, but as a kid who did a lot of activities, I imagine if my mom had serious cancer for the second time I may have needed a day off of life too every now and again, and not my dad pulling me out of all the stuff I wanted to do.

Maybe we do a little less telling the guy how to live his life and raise his family?
 
I imagine if my mom had serious cancer for the second time I may have needed a day off
If this is the case I apologize. I was completely unaware of anything like this.

Of course you do what you need to in instances like this.
There's a thread on it. I kinda figured maybe you didn't see it. You're good people and so's Chad. Let's maybe just support a bit here.
 
My son closed out his 6U year on a heater…won 8 straight Local events (including a pair of -1 35s)…then had this putt to win his first 2-day State Championship (37-37):


His game has really blossomed in the last 6 months. Drives it straight…irons solid and starting to check…and short game is elite. On to the 7s…and an additional 300 yards of distance per 9 holes…
 
My son closed out his 6U year on a heater…won 8 straight Local events (including a pair of -1 35s)…then had this putt to win his first 2-day State Championship (37-37):


His game has really blossomed in the last 6 months. Drives it straight…irons solid and starting to check…and short game is elite. On to the 7s…and an additional 300 yards of distance per 9 holes…
Sounds like he needs a challenge and should come play in 30 degree weather ;)

Also tell him to yell at that caddy for walking around while he's trying to putt LOL
 
Both my kids qualified for Regional championships in bouldering. U13 kid finished in 5th place in the region (ND, SD, MN, WI, IA, , NE northern IL). U15 kid finished tied for 26th. Top 26 kids make it to regionals so it was a big sweat for the 13 year old. Their home gym, Minneapolis Bouldering Project is hosting the regional championships so a little bit of home court advantage. U13 kiddo definitely has a chance at a podium and would for sure make it to Divisionals (top 13) if that age group continued on, but USA climbing has determined it best for the young ones to just stop at Regionals. Would take specific types of climbs for my U15 kid to finish top 13 and continue on, but you never know.
 
My son closed out his 6U year on a heater…won 8 straight Local events (including a pair of -1 35s)…then had this putt to win his first 2-day State Championship (37-37):


His game has really blossomed in the last 6 months. Drives it straight…irons solid and starting to check…and short game is elite. On to the 7s…and an additional 300 yards of distance per 9 holes…
Also tell him to yell at that caddy for walking around while he's trying to putt LOL
Belt buckle rule...either in front of it or behind it. It just takes my old knees a while to get there after walking 4 miles...
 
Wrapped up our first club volleyball tournament this past weekend. My girl's on a 15U team (she's not even 14 yet) here locally. It's a newer club with a very young (college volleyball player) coach and her dad helping out. She loves the girls she's on the team with, which is a big part of it.

Was up and at 'em at 6am on Saturday morning (after being at my company Christmas party the day before where I had juuuust a few cocktails) for an 8am game. Another at 11 and the last at noon. We lost the first match (to one of the better squads in the tournament) but came roaring back to win the final two matches, which was nice to see. My daughter's serves were on point and she got the final two points to win the first match. So proud of her.

Games Sunday at a different location against slightly better competition and unfortunately lost all three games, the last two of which we should have won. Girls were just losing focus at the absolute worst times. But they had fun and the point is to just get better every time out there.

My girl is also on her school (8th grade) team, and their first game is tomorrow afternoon. She was on the 7th grade team last year and from what I remember about what her school's 8th grade team looked like last year, we may not be very good. :oldunsure:
 
Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
 
Senior Night tonight for my daughter's varsity girls hockey team. In addition to the normal festivites/ceremony, the coach is surprising the girls by having a parent or parent representative (former coach, grandparents, etc.) for each senior come into the locker room to have them tie their girl's skates "one last time" like we did when we they were younger.

How the heck am I supposed to do that without bawling like a baby, coach?

Any tips on how to get through a daughter's senior night without embarrassing myself? I did well at my son's a few years ago, but this one is going to be hard.
Sunglasses and a covid mask. Ski mask over that.

I'm getting nostalgic and emotional every time my HS sr son does just about anything this year.
 
KanilJr (13yo) got his second degree blackbelt last month. To put that in context, it took 3.5 years to go from white belt to first degree and another 3.5 years to go from first degree to second.

We started when he was 6 years old and really had to help him stay motivated to get his first degree. A lot of times it was a real battle to get him to go to class, especially the last 6 months or so where we eventually told him he had to finish his first degree but if he didn't want to continue after that, he didn't have to. We gave him the choice but told him if he did decide to continue, we weren't going to be the ones holding him accountable. After he got the first degree, he took a 3 week break and during that time decided he wanted to go for his second degree. Outside of asking us to record him practicing so he could use it to correct his form, we were purely chauffeurs to/from classes and tournaments.

During this time, he started to enjoy helping out with the lower belt classes, (and especially the "little tigers" 6yo and younger class). He's enjoyed that so much that two nights a week he goes in an hour early so he can help with those classes. He turns 14 in March and the owner of the school has asked him if he'd like to have a summer job as a part-time instructor. It would pay minimum wage but more important (to us parents at least, lol) we would no longer have to pay monthly dues.

We're super proud of the way he's really taken ownership of his own success. And as a reward, he's in incredible shape and has something he really enjoys that he can do for summer jobs and potentially even part time during college.
 

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