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re: Tell the truth, do you ever hope your kid's team loses so you can get home?
Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:13 pm to xBirdx
Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:13 pm to xBirdx
And it’ll before before they blink. That 13-18 age is crazy for parents and kids, leverage almost everything to squeeze that time out of life.
It’s ending for us…and there isn’t one weekend tournament in bumfrick AL/MS/LA that I regret going to. That’s as analog as you can get raising your child. End every talk with…now go kick their arse!
It’s ending for us…and there isn’t one weekend tournament in bumfrick AL/MS/LA that I regret going to. That’s as analog as you can get raising your child. End every talk with…now go kick their arse!
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Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:14 pm to TU Rob
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My oldest did competitive soccer for a few years, and while most games were against other local clubs, or a local tournament, there were a few out of town tourneys we took them to.
The one that stands out was in Huntsville Alabama, and there was a Friday night game, multiple games on Saturday, and by the time we got to Sunday morning in the losers bracket, if they lost we all got to leave around 10. If they won, there was like 3-4 hours until the championship game. If it hadn't been raining off and on all weekend, most of us wouldn't have minded sticking around. But when I'm there with her younger brothers and having to kill another 2-4 hours between games with everyone either damp or soaking wet, yeah, I want them to lose so we can head home. Maybe it is bad parenting, and none of us would ever tell our kids that. By then we've seen a half dozen games already and another long wait so y'all get a silver medal or gold medal from the whatever Huntsville Soccer Club tournament presented by some local sponsor isn't that appealing. I still have laundry to do, get ready for work, maybe do some grocery shopping since we haven't been home in 3 days.
yea i never hope we lose but there are sittuations im not upset. especially late late games.now if its a consolation game...we just forfeit those if they are late and we have a drive. screw that.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 4:02 pm to lsu777
People are calling me out, but I didn't say I wanted my kids to lose. Once, back in the early 90's my daughter loved soccer and she was a very good athlete. When we moved to BR the only girl teams were low skill level and they were only for girls up to 9th grade.
One coach of a HS boy's team saw my daughter play and encouraged her to try out for his team, well she made the team, not a starter, but she played a lot on 2nd string. The problem was that she was 5'9" 130 lb, the guys were all much bigger, I was worried about her safety, but she was fast and agile and avoided heavy contact. Until the team went to Alexandria for the state championship, the other team looked like all football linebackers. During warmups I went up to the coach and gave him this look, thanks God she never got on the field that day. She pouted all the way home about not getting to play, but they won and she didn't get hurt.
By the next year she decided that she wanted to be a model, at least she never fell off of a runway.
One coach of a HS boy's team saw my daughter play and encouraged her to try out for his team, well she made the team, not a starter, but she played a lot on 2nd string. The problem was that she was 5'9" 130 lb, the guys were all much bigger, I was worried about her safety, but she was fast and agile and avoided heavy contact. Until the team went to Alexandria for the state championship, the other team looked like all football linebackers. During warmups I went up to the coach and gave him this look, thanks God she never got on the field that day. She pouted all the way home about not getting to play, but they won and she didn't get hurt.
By the next year she decided that she wanted to be a model, at least she never fell off of a runway.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 4:43 pm to jm_1776
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Why not try and relish this time with your family?
Hate to pick on your here, but my problem is for many families its not family time, unless you count family time as just being in the same general vicinity at a ballpark.
More often its parents splitting up to go to do different games with different kids, sometimes in different cities. And for most of the travel sports I played outside of the car ride I remember spending way more time with my teammates than my parents and siblings. I remember my dad working yearly turnarounds and missing games, and it didn't affect me in the least because I knew they cared, wanted me to do my best, and paid for all of it, even if they weren't at every single game, track meet, or tournament.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:10 pm to tigerfoot
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I dont understand the use of we, our, and us when referring to a team you dont play on, I hear it all the time.
You need to get over this psychopathic pet peeve. Start by looking in a dictionary.
We - the group of parents who hang together every weekend watching our kids play.
Us - the people on group emails and group chats because the kids don’t drive themselves and we are the ones preparing and organizing everything
Our - the kids who you know so well they feel like family. Every kid knows who every adult corresponds with. Our family, our group of people doing the same thing with the same people the entire season.
Even NFL - “we” the team you’ve been rooting for your whole life, the groups of fellow fans, the message board chatter, the fellows in the stands with you.
You are wrong on this and need to get over it. Don’t give yourself needless negativity.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 6:12 pm to andouille
While I do miss watching my kids compete...I must admit, there were some late Sunday evenings after being at the ballpark or volleyball venue since Saturday morning where I thought..."Yeah...let's just get out of here and go home".
But I'll also say this, cherish those days and memories. They go fast, and about 90% of them end by the time high school is over. If not before. Rare they continue after that.
But I'll also say this, cherish those days and memories. They go fast, and about 90% of them end by the time high school is over. If not before. Rare they continue after that.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 6:21 pm to andouille
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do you ever hope your kid's team loses so you can get home?
Posted on 4/30/25 at 10:25 pm to AtlantaLSUfan
Holy shite you nailed it
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:09 pm to andouille
We had this thread not very long ago.
Anyone who says no is a liar or doesn't live in a place where it is 90°+ with 60% humidity at 10am on a Saturday in July after they just worked a 12 hour night shift.
Anyone who says no is a liar or doesn't live in a place where it is 90°+ with 60% humidity at 10am on a Saturday in July after they just worked a 12 hour night shift.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 7:30 am to andouille
There's no winning or losing at a dance recital. 
Posted on 5/1/25 at 7:33 am to andouille
Never had a kid in sports but, dance recitals were brutal!
Posted on 5/1/25 at 7:41 am to sqerty
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I peruse these threads and can't help feeling a little smug about being childless. It just never ends with these minions
Congrats. Your bloodline has survived hundreds of thousands of years, defying wars, famines, natural disasters, disease, and all the other impossible hardships, but its ending with you because you're too big of a loser to accomplish the one biological task we are all assigned.
As your entire ancestral existence fades into the dark void of time, on your deathbed, you can enjoy a smug moment where you tell yourself, "At least I never had to watch my own flesh and blood compete in sports."
Posted on 5/1/25 at 7:45 am to NOLALGD
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Hate to pick on your here, but my problem is for many families its not family time, unless you count family time as just being in the same general vicinity at a ballpark.
Exactly. The only family time I’m getting is the wife and I sitting in a chair together for 6 hours, which we paid $48 to do for the weekend.
Family time would be instead of one kid playing baseball on Saturday while the other kid tags along and plays on his phone the whole time while I listen to shitty mom rap music and idiot dads hollering at umps, we could all be in a boat on a lake tubing and wakeboarding.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 7:59 am to andouille
No, but when I was in peewee league as a boy, I hoped we would lose so I could get home earlier and do the important stuff.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 8:59 am to MorbidTheClown
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Never had a kid in sports but, dance recitals were brutal!
Jesus Christ try drama club and marching band....UGH. Luckily neither is an activity that the adults who run the show want parents around for except for performances but the performances are usually brutal....
Band is especially bad. Drama was twice a school year. Band is almost twice a month except for football season and then its once a week plus twice a month.....UGH. Band parents tend to be on the same level as travel ball parents.....our daughter plays the clarinet in the band. She enjoys it and is about as good as youi'd expect a kid who has been playing since the 6th grade to be....there is another girl her age who has played the same length of time and is about the same level of proficiency whose mom is just ATE up with band and how great her little girl is...to the point that the little girl has told my wife that she hates band and wants to quit...but is afraid to tell her mother.
The only really good thing that has come from our daughter being in the band is she and do, on occasion, sit on the back porch and I pick guitar and she plays the clarinet and sax and its fun. Occasionally the wife joins in (clarinet and sax also) and we have a big time. We are planning on busking some around town this summer just for fun....thats an upside to her being in band...but the commitment is a LOT....
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