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What kind of errands....
| Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm |
Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?
I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?


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Have you been living in soap opera world or what?
I don't condemn PJM because she values family less or has some botched relationships with family. All I wanted to say was that if that is the way her family functions (originally, in regards to what she was willing to take off work for,) it helps explain why she can't get her mind around how other people's families function. (I've noticed over the years that sometimes PJM has a hard time understanding value structures completely different than her own and it isn't her strength to do what would need to be done in order to understand them.)
If your father doesn't even tell you that he's moved out of town, maybe you wouldn't understand why my father would offer to pay for my child's chess club (when I'm presumably perfectly able to pay for it.) Maybe you would transpose your understanding of your family dynamics onto mine and not be able to imagine a father who would be so crazy generous. (Sarcasm here as paying for chess club is really one of the littler things my dad has done for us.)
I never said I was unable to travel abroad with my parent. I don't think it makes sense to denigrate my whole relationship with him just because I don't want to travel with him long distance. I really don't think traveling together is the holy grail of healthy functional relationships. I could do it (and have done it,) but if you don't mind, I don't want to do it.
The joy of playing is directly related to the goal of winning"
Wow, guess you've never played a sport then.
MM
Yes, my boys are both into baseball including playing fall ball this fall.
PumpkinAngel
You aren't seeing very clearly.
With elite teams the case where a cash deposit is held against attendance is going to be very very rare. In fact it makes so little sense that I can't imagine a situation where an actual elite team would actually impose such a sanction. Regardless of what you have heard, I doubt you've heard correctly. It just isn't necessary when having a position on a team is a priviledge. Initially the consequence is reduced game/competition involvement. Followed by loss of a spot at next tryouts, if not mid-season termination. Its not houseleague - having a spot on a team is a privilege earned by the child. Not the right of every child who wants one and who has parents willing to pay.
Children on elite teams make friends at school from day 1. They are in school before they elite teams start up. They achieve big birthday party lists though. Most of the kids, as it happens, participate in more than one sport at some level above rec. They make friends in all of their sports, at school and in their neighbhourhoods.
Parents do not keep kids in sport because of money and time previously sunk in. That generally viewed as an investment with real time roi. Keeping a child in does not generate any more roi, it just requires more i. Your platform makes no sense. By middle school age its pretty darn clear which kids have a hope in hell of acheiving an athletic scholarship worth anything. Most of them don't. The elite program is not flat, it is further tiered. The top of the top have something to consider, the rest not so much. And where a teenage is continuing thinking of scholarships, you might want to consider that not every parent is planning to hand out free ride college programs to their kids. Alot of those bright 14 year olds who continue with their sport might just be doing it with an eye towards expanding their own opportunities, don't ya think? To be brutally frank, the % kids participating in elite sports programs who are also highly achieving acadmeic students, with as much or more chance of landing an academic as an athletic scholarship, is much higher than that % in the student body at large. There is more of which to be jealous than you may realize.
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