My situation is different. I don’t live in a neighborhood and there is no way for my kids to get to their friends without them either riding bikes on a major highway or me driving them. They can’t just decide to walk to the neighborhood park and play a pickup game.

I also have a boy and a girl so sometimes she wants to do gymnastics and all the time he wants to play tackle what ever moves, so that doesn’t mix.

My wife and I take up the slack sometimes when they each need to play without the other.

But you’re right, helicopter and bush hog parenting is severely delaying children’s development.

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Your dad never threw the baseball or football with you? Never kicked your arse in pickup basketball?

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Posted on 4/7/22 at 8:58 am to Oilfieldbiology

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Your dad never threw the baseball or football with you? Never kicked your arse in pickup basketball?

Maybe when I was really young he played a little baseball with me. Maybe. I don’t remember it and I have a detailed memory of most of my life from kindergarten on. I never wanted him to either. I much preferred Practicing sports on my own or with other kids. I broke the garage door window a good dozen times because I used to tape a soccer goal onto the wall of the garage and you don’t make them all.

I would have destroyed my dad in basketball by about 8 years old. Cross that geezer up and send him to the orthopedist.

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