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BamBam
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 Posted: 04/15/03 - 21:35 Post subject: Little Kids and Organized Sports
Brief set up:
Nick (6 year old) began taking TaeKwanDo about 5 weeks ago.
His class is in a large room with window on one side.
All the parents sits outside of the windows and watch their kiddos with pride. (Looks like a penguin tank at the zoo).
So today 4 of the little ones are lined up against the opposite wall and the teacher is talking to them intently. We see her showing them a type of handshake which demonstrates friendship and respect (we read the liberetto  ) So as she turns toward Nick and another student to talk demonstrate the handshake, the other two little kids decide to pick their noses. She doesn't see this and turns back to them and reaches out to shake their hands-- I bit my lip as I realized she was going in for the snot shake. 
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airehead
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 21:56 Post subject:
  
That just brings up so many emotions...
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Posted: 04/15/03 - 23:11 Post subject: Re: Little Kids and Organized Sports
| BamBam wrote: | Brief set up:
Nick (6 year old) began taking TaeKwanDo about 5 weeks ago.
His class is in a large room with window on one side.
All the parents sits outside of the windows and watch their kiddos with pride. (Looks like a penguin tank at the zoo).
So today 4 of the little ones are lined up against the opposite wall and the teacher is talking to them intently. We see her showing them a type of handshake which demonstrates friendship and respect (we read the liberetto ) So as she turns toward Nick and another student to talk demonstrate the handshake, the other two little kids decide to pick their noses. She doesn't see this and turns back to them and reaches out to shake their hands-- I bit my lip as I realized she was going in for the snot shake. |
What you didn't hear was the part of the lecture that went, "Remember, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose..."
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 04:59 Post subject:
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genie
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 07:52 Post subject: Re: Little Kids and Organized Sports
| thegman wrote: | | BamBam wrote: | Brief set up:
Nick (6 year old) began taking TaeKwanDo about 5 weeks ago.
His class is in a large room with window on one side.
All the parents sits outside of the windows and watch their kiddos with pride. (Looks like a penguin tank at the zoo).
So today 4 of the little ones are lined up against the opposite wall and the teacher is talking to them intently. We see her showing them a type of handshake which demonstrates friendship and respect (we read the liberetto ) So as she turns toward Nick and another student to talk demonstrate the handshake, the other two little kids decide to pick their noses. She doesn't see this and turns back to them and reaches out to shake their hands-- I bit my lip as I realized she was going in for the snot shake. |
What you didn't hear was the part of the lecture that went, "Remember, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose..." |
OMG, I was just thinking that!!!!
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 07:55 Post subject:
50 bucks the Smales kid picks his nose
double or nothing he eats it....
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 09:33 Post subject:
That was pretty great.
I inherited a little league team several years ago that had gone 0-18 the previous year and many of the same players were still on the team I got. We went about our business learning baseball and when season rolled around we were competetive but still continued to lose. At 0-7 we finally had a chance to win a game. Bases loaded with two outs in the bottom of the last inning and the opposing pitcher was having control problems. We had a 3-0 count on our batter and were about to score the tying run when the kid on 3rd, who only ever got on base when he walked or got hit by a pitch, decided to steal home for some damn reason. He took off for the plate as I stood there in disbelief. The pitcher threw the ball to the catcher and Eddie was out by 4 feet. My fellow coaches were looking at me like I had gone nuts (I was coaching 3rd) thinking I had told him to steal home. Eddie is laying there in the dirt crying, the whole team is totally bummed out and the other team is rejoicing. Much as I felt like whacking Eddie along side the head I kept my cool and had to explain to the whole team after the game why IT'S SO F'ING IMPORTANT TO LISTEN TO YOUR COACH! . We ended the season with 7 wins though and I was a temporary hero for dragging that bunch out of the abyss.
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Posted: 04/16/03 - 09:49 Post subject:
I thought that this thread was going to be about:
1. What aholes parents can be when their kids are on a competitive team, or,
2. How good or bad your kid/some other kid is on a competitive team, or,
3. If it were me, disbelief that my daughter played about 4 minutes total at her travel soccer game on Sunday. I kept my mouth shut about it, but sheesh, it bugs the he!! out of me.
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