What kind of errands....

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Registered: 08-27-2005
What kind of errands....
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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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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:26pm
Yes, it would be his choice. Every time. You wouldn't hear him lamenting what a logistical PITA it would be that he'd "have" to. Precisely my point.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:27pm

No. They can't be just as physically fit persuing rec rather than comp. The level of activity required and the time dedicated aren't even close.

Its unfair for a parent to decide to purposefully deny a child the opportunity to ever be able to persue competitive sport by keeping him intentionally behind his peers in terms of athletic exposure, experience, encouragement, involvement. Sport is a big and highly regared part of kid social life, whether parents like it or not. At the very least every parent should want to provide their child with the opportunity to be at least on par with peers in the more popular athletic persuits. There are alot of recesses for a child to survive.

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Registered: 03-29-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:27pm
I agree with Dogma. It's highly unlikely that you will find a post where Dogma admits to doing too much or too little of anything. ;)
Congratulations! I'm so happy to hear it. I just heard the good news and popped back over, just in case you were still checking in.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:30pm
More power to them! I hope that pick-up games can remain alive even in the face of intense pushing towards purely adult-organized sports.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:31pm
Well put. That's why I always tell my kids, "Let's go swimming, let's shoot some baskets, race each other around the track. Go for a bike ride, play four square, frisbee or tennis. Find a friend and just go". And they usually do.
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:32pm
Not *all* kids.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:32pm
More active and overweight. However that's easier said than done. In reality its difficult for a child to be active and overweight. There is not a single overweight child on any of my children's competitive or semi competitive teams. Co-incidence? I don't think so.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:35pm
He tried out and made the team, beating kids with 2 years competitive exposure, while he had almost no previous exposure to the sport? Were they brutally short of kids, or what?
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:35pm
You mean you got both calls at the same time? Wish I could get my kids to cluster their stuff together like that. Sort of like when I'm planning to drop by the pharmacy on my way to the supermarket. So much easier.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:36pm
Mmmm. Ok. Congratulations, you've caught me in a linguistic discrepancy. I stand by my statement that kids don't have the power to change anything FOR adults. That doesn't mean that grownups don't have anything to change as a result of kids. Is that something you can be asked to follow?

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