I spent the biggest part of two hours getting Tooltip to work on the post below so you’d better hover your mouse arrow over the words ‘Forward’ and Defender’ – I did it for you guys, not me, I know what they mean.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
A sports gripe
You know me, not really into sports, but I do love to watch my son play soccer. He’s been playing soccer exclusively since he was 5yrs old. I’m not a fanatical soccer mom, I’ve pulled him out of a game if he’s acted like a jerk. As a mom I wanted him to be good at one thing, and I certainly didn’t want to spend my days driving him around from basketball practice to baseball practice to soccer etc etc etc. Jack of all trades master of none so to speak. Pick a sport, one sport and stick with it.
He’s not the best player on the team, but he’s damn good and he’s worked hard. He and a bunch of other boys on the team have earned the right to be starters, earned the right to play the position they feel the most comfortable in, and earned the right not to be pulled out of the match to give the ‘new kids’ a chance to play – that bullshit cushy ‘let every kid feel good about themselves’ and ‘everyone get’s a chance to play’ should end in junior high. Tough the suckers up for the real world I say!
Seriously, high school is not the place to start playing a sport and tryouts in soccer should be the same as any other sport – try out and bomb, you don’t get picked for the team.
High school sport is competitive, as a coach , you don’t start the game with players who’ve never played before, and you certainly don’t pull out your best players if you don’t have a significant lead – that’s coaching 101 – isn’t it?
And for the first time in my life, I sound like a fanatical soccer mom – do I care? Nah!
M is a Forward not a friggin Defender, don’t have him defending with the sole purpose of picking up the slack of those who couldn’t kick a ball if it were 3 feet in diameter.
Gee
I wonder who’s been playing with my phone?
The difference in favorites
Every child has a favorite movie. You know, the movie they want to watch over and over again until the dialogue is memorized and you as a parent want to put your head through a window if you have to watch it just ONE MORE TIME!
With M it was Pinochio, and later the The Aristocats, with C it’s ‘Independence Day‘.
Where did I go wrong?
No I don’t own the movie, he figured out how to work the DVR.
I’m still chuckling
Matthew – yeah what you gonna do
Hubby – yeah, I’ll hit you so many times you’ll think you’re surrounded!
lol
Sometimes he comes up with some zingers
School confusion
It should be mandatory, all schools whether they be private, catholic or public, should all start on the same day.
My school classes officially start on the 8th
C goes in on the 4th from 9am to 11am – kindergarten introduction, a parent has to stay. Then All kids who have a surname beginning with A thru K have a full day on the 8th so that includes C – then he doesn’t have to go in on the 9th (that’s reserved for the other half of the alphabet) but I have a full day of classes, THEN he has half day on the 10th – out at 11am WTF! and a full day on the 11th.
M has half day on the 4th, full day on the 5th and classes start on the 8th.
Needless to say having 3 schools to keep track of get’s confusing, and it’s inevitable I’ll screw up as the year progresses. One of us will end up staying home when we’re suppose to be at school or go in to school when we’re suppose to be home. I need a ‘life’ manager – someone who can come in every morning get up and ready those who need to be someplace, fill backbacks with the appropriate stuff, make sure forms are filled in and returned in a timely manner and generally get me organised.
I have no idea how Angie does it - she’s got 6 kids and herself to get ready and out in the morning.