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At young ages, you just gotta get as many playing as possible. And that's by making it fun for them. It's the only way to keep the leagues going and also to eventually find the ones that are good at that spot.
I think a lot of kids (and their parents) are just lazy these days.
My son's teachers tell us all the time that he's "faster and more athletic than all the other kids" by a lot. I'm not sure where all these lazy kids come from, because I'm sure that he's not that fast. (I don't time him or have other 3 year olds to compare him to.) However it must be obvious because both teachers and the parent liaison have brought it up
At young ages, you just gotta get as many playing as possible. And that's by making it fun for them. It's the only way to keep the leagues going and also to eventually find the ones that are good at that spot.
I'm part of the organization that manages the velodrome here in Houston, and we run several day camps in the summers to get kids interested in riding bikes. No matter how hard we try to make it a "fun" instructional camp, it doesn't take but a day of getting used to riding a track bike before even the 8 and 9 year olds start seeing who is faster. It's just part of our DNA.
You better tell your son to learn how to sandbag. Or you're going to make a lot of enemies very quickly.I think a lot of kids (and their parents) are just lazy these days.
My son's teachers tell us all the time that he's "faster and more athletic than all the other kids" by a lot. I'm not sure where all these lazy kids come from, because I'm sure that he's not that fast. (I don't time him or have other 3 year olds to compare him to.) However it must be obvious because both teachers and the parent liaison have brought it up
No matter what the truth is, you'll be "those" parents.
it be more fun if they served beer, just saying.Oh man, kids sports are a hoot! Some of the best times I've ever had with my kids
My kids have been on some good teams that were ultimately ruined by parents vs coach politics, I really hated that. And the parents that drove me crazy are the ones who coach their kid from the sidelines, ignoring that there is even a coach. I remember one guy who would pull his kid out of the time out huddle while the coach was talking, to have his own little session!
i know, some cant handle their beer and get stupid.
but isnt he dark complected?I think a lot of kids (and their parents) are just lazy these days.
My son's teachers tell us all the time that he's "faster and more athletic than all the other kids" by a lot. I'm not sure where all these lazy kids come from, because I'm sure that he's not that fast. (I don't time him or have other 3 year olds to compare him to.) However it must be obvious because both teachers and the parent liaison have brought it up
I wonder if any of the kids want to even play goalie at 4 though. I'm just picturing some poor kid standing alone in the goal yelling "Guys! Guys! C'mon guys!" while everyone else is running around and battling for the ball in the middle of the field.
No, he's Hispanic and as pale as me. My 2 1/2 year old daughter is black.
I bet she's even faster.
Well she's taller (she's 13 months younger), I know that much.
Congratulations on your tall black child and your fast Hispanic!
I have an average heigt, semi fast for her size, 11 year old white girl that I'm open to trading for before she gets to middle school.
I'm also thinking about taking up the practice of spanking. Wish there was some advice out there about it.
Yeah I think she is going to be extremely tall. I also have a shortie daughter (the one in my avatar) too though.
kori, they do that because kids that little hardly ever score goals, and whoever is forced to pay goalie is essentially being punished, because they are forced to stay still all game while everyone else on their team is running around having fun.....come on now.
We run a Pop Warner football team. It's great having kids involved at an early age. As their new Public Relations director I'm going to start a little newspaper for the team in the neighborhood with contributions from the children as volunteers. It's a first as far as I know here, even trying to get a small youth band started but that might take a season or two to get off the ground. It's a step more than just football but it'll be fun.
I did have issue with the parents who knew that every kid had to play 2 quarters of the basketball game so they never came to practice and just showed up for games. The coach couldn't do anything about it. I also remember the team (cough St. Gregory's) that would have its kids that were not very good foul out on purpose so they did not have to play them the whole 2 quarters and could sub in the best player.
With basketball for little ones, my son actually enjoyed practice more than the games. In practice, they all do the drills and stuff, but in the games only 3 or 4 kids ever touched the ball unless you grabbed a rebound.
We ended after 3 years because the coach turned into a maniac. Video scouting the opposing teams of 7 year olds and calling extra practices the day after Christmas were just a bit too much.
An Arkansas mother has sued her son's high school for cutting her son from the school's varsity basketball team, claiming that he was deprived the right of a full education because he was not allowed to take part in school athletics.
The Mamuelle boys basketball team — iHigh
As reported by Arkansas Matters and USA Today, among other sources, the mother of a Maumelle (Ark.) High freshman, a woman named Teresa Bloodman, filed suit against the school, district and state after her son was replaced on the school's basketball team following a third set of tryouts for the team that re-incorporated members of the school's football team.
Bloodman's son, who is a minor and was not named in the suit, spent two months as part of the team after qualifying through two tryouts in August only to be replaced three months later by a member of the football team, as were nine of the team's 11 original players.
Mamuelle High School — EdLine.net
While those replacements might stoke claims of favoritism, the lawsuit filed by Bloodman goes much further, claiming that her son has a Cons utional right to participate in school sports, as you can read in the excerpt from the filed suit directly below.
"…the deprivation of the right to a full and complete education which includes compe ion in sports and consequently athletic scholarships impairs John Doe of a property right guaranteed under both the U.S. and State Cons utions."
The suit further alleges that the sheer lack of an orderly appeals process for students who were cut is also a violation of due process.
While the case itself could serve as a watershed in how schools hold tryouts for varsity sports, the attorney for the Pulaski County Special School District is confident that it will be seen as groundless once it is further examined in a court of law.
"The simple issue here is whether or not a student has a right to participate in extra-curricular activities; be it band, choir or whatever," Pulaski County Special School District attorney Jay Bequette told Arkansas Matters. "There is no clearly established right of parents to have their children compete in interscholastic athletics."
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The kind that won't let his son play soccer.
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