What kind of errands....
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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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Love never does it.
And no, not even the talented are going to catch up in the athletic arena with mere - practice. A few clinics aren't going to help either. The clinics are going to be full of kids who are already caught up and who are trying to improve and pull ahead of the pack. Its very important to be there when everyone else is.
The problem here is that "sports" seems to be interpreted by too many as "organized sports run by an adult". Itused to be easy for a child to play sports quite a lot w/o ever being in any organized sporting activity. In fact, relying on adult-organized sports has lead to a bad change in kids that my BIL (a teacher) has noted to me many times. He says that what he's noticed over the years as adult-run sports overtake child-organized sports is that kids are losing the ability to organize themselves into pick-up games with flexable rules. Kids used to be able to organize a pick-up game and finagle the rules and figure out workarounds based on where they were and who/how many kids were playing. This skill that used to be taken for granted is being lost. This skill is early training in self-organization and leadership. Now kids have it all done for them and (according to my BIL) they flounder around w/o an adult, an official field and the right number of players with the right abilities.
I think the most important loss is the loss of leadership skill building. Now adults do everything. Even a team captain still answers to an adult. The kids don't learn how to make a team and make a game THEMSELVES with no adult present to make sure everything is copacetic.
I think an abundance of organized sports is actually damaging because it's leading (often has already led) to the death of pick-up games which I think are a lot better for kids because they teach how to be a leader w/o adults and how to exercise and have fun and play sports w/o some adult pulling all the strings.
"Its very important to be there when everyone else is."
To people with your values, sure.
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As far as I can tell, no one is claiming anything of the kind. I try to focus on the posts that stay away from blanket statements involving the words "always", "never", and "no".
What seems to one family like a reasonable level of activity might strike another as slacking. Likewise with food and housekeeping.
So if a situation or scenario has a readily identifiable solution, it never was a problem in the first place?
Care to provide a concrete example?
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For what purpose?
PumpkinAngel
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