Kids of EB

[P-E]

Apparently the daycare ladies missed Her Royal Highness Queen Snickette's morning I must sit on the potty time yesterday.  She threw one huge tantrum in the middle of breakfast.  She demanded a diaper change right there and then since she missed her throne time.  As soon as she saw them retrieve a diaper from the other room she stopped the fit and was happy.  

I didn't know the morning throne time was an everyday occurrence.  This potty training thing might happen sooner than expected with this one.

That's a good thing.   We had to bribe mini with candy to potty train.   We're still wiping.  We will have to use keys the the car as a bribe if this phase doesn't hurry up. 

 

[matt267 PE]

I'm sure it makes me a horrible and ungrateful person, but sometimes I just don't want to be a parent anymore.

 

[snickerd3]

apparently snickette really does have the medical profession calling.  Daycare told me yesterday that one of the little boys on behavior meds, sometimes if he missed/late on a dose or they haven't kicked in yet, will see snickette when he gets there, will go by her and play or just sit with her and is calm and gentle.  any one else comes up to him or distracts him and they are likely to get bopped on the head one second and returns to play with snickette the next.  if she isn't around HFS this kid is crazy and unreachable.    

 

[MA_PE]

That's not a medical calling, sounds more like a boy magnet.  That could cause a lot of problems as she gets older.  The problems of being attractive with a great personality.

 

[snickerd3]

^she's two!  that can't be starting alr  

 

[MA_PE]

^she's two!  that can't be starting alr  

sure keep telling yourself that.  Keep an eye on her....

 

[ktulu]

hahaha. Good luck to her.

Yeah, she finished 5th of 12 girls. This is damn impressive knowing that her coach told us to not expect any sort of placement based on the girls she was competing against. She was thrilled.

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

Signed mini-Ram up for Little League yesterday.  Starts first week April through June, games on Mondays and Sundays.  Now to pick up shoes, gloves, cup...why did I sign up for this again?

 

[Supe]

Signed mini-Ram up for Little League yesterday.  Starts first week April through June, games on Mondays and Sundays.  Now to pick up shoes, gloves, cup...why did I sign up for this again?

You must like yelling, and middle-aged men with inferiority complexes (i.e., about 75% of coaches).

 

[matt267 PE]

middle-aged men with inferiority complexes (i.e., about 75% of coaches).

My wife and I are very happy that our daughter's soccer coach is one of the 25%.

 

[MA_PE]

You must like yelling, and middle-aged men with inferiority complexes (i.e., about 75% of coaches).

My kids experienced both types.  The 25% were the most effective.

 

[Supe]

Agreed.  Most of the 75%ers I encountered in my youth had their own kids playing for them.  Guess who was always named "captain" and given special privileges/more playing time?  

 

[matt267 PE]

The coach's daughter play on my daughter's team. She's the only one he yells at and threatens with "laps" around the field. But he's very kind and patient with the other players.

 

[snickerd3]

I think this year will be the first year when baseball for minisnick is a real game and not everyone gets to hit once an inning (3 innings).  Although the last day of basketball they divided the kids up so it was the rough knock'em to the floor game and the timid game.   Minisnick was part of the knock'em to the floor teams.  Definitely could see the diva players already that were all about them, not passing the ball.  and the very good team players.  

 

[Road Guy]

Regardless if the coach was good or bad, the one thing they have in common is that they were not too lazy to do the job - something 98% of the parents usually are

 

[MA_PE]

Regardless if the coach was good or bad, the one thing they have in common is that they were not too lazy to do the job - something 98% of the parents usually are

I'll accept that.  Most of the long-time coaches in the program were good guys that were trying to coach the kids and teach them the sport, the guys that jumped on as coaches because their kids were there could go either way:  They took it too seriously and got too intense, or were just trying to help the program out because there was a shortage of coaches and basically just showed up but didn't really "coach".  Same with parents - some guys were complete jerks, others would just come and watch.

Then you've got kids that have never picked up a ball before signing on to the program versus kids who have family members that like to play outside and the kids are pretty adept at the game before they're of age to play.

Ah, the fond(?) memories of youth sports.  I've got a thousand stories, good and bad.  It's a crap shoot what the demeanor of the coach is.

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

Can't see any coaching in my future.  I was introduced to baseball when I moved to the US so while I love going to the games/following on TV, I never went through the coaching process.  

With that said, I've basically committed to field cleaning and other activities so I can avoid being a bleacher parent.

 

[Road Guy]

Just busting your balls!!

I never played baseball in my youth, or really watched it much to be honest... but what sort of happens is lots of people sign their kids up for t-ball where everyone wants to coach and then as you keep going through the years eventually the # of wannabee coaches gets smaller. You get to know people and then eventually get asked to "help" I don't think I coached until my kids 3rd season.  They just didn't have enough people to do it.. What I tried to do was find a dad that knew the game but didn't want to be the "head coach" but someone I could rely on to help with practice drills and such. But I ended up coaching a lot of softball and baseball. Looking back it was fun, but I didn't take it too seriously.

my first son didn't play baseball until the 3rd grade and even though I worked with him as much as I could that year he was the worst kid on the team. The HC for that team was the typical jerk.  My kid and the other "bad one" batted last every game, sat out the maximum time they could every game and never really got encouraged. I really believe that coaches philosophy was "treat the bad kids like shit so they don't come back" I don't think he even got a hit until the 7th game. I was surprised he stuck with it.

The following season we had a very loud yelling coach, but it was in a positive way.  He put a lot of energy into all the practices and made my kid go from the worst kid on the team to the middle of the pack just by caring a little..I remember him telling every kid on the team that he wanted them to pitch at least one inning. It really helped their motivation to practice.. &it helped he really knew the game.

I guess the 3rd season all the good (coaches) left so we got those emails "if we don't have some parents step up to coach we wont have teams this spring" so I talked another dad into doing it with me and we had a blast and were above .500. The dad that helped me was so anxious about being in front of the kids I think he would shotgun a beer in the parking lot to get over his nerves. I never saw it but that's my suspicion..

I was probably too nice to the kids after the ordeal my kid had. I would always put the better kids in the position to win, but also let everyone play some infield time, pitch, etc..but I didn't have the heart to make the same kid bat last every game, and I rotated who sat out equally and such. I also stole the previous coaches idea of offering every kid a chance to pitch & sometimes you would be amazed when the nerdy kid with glasses strikes a few people out!

But I do highly recommend coaching or assistant coaching a season once you go through a couple years, even if it makes you nervous and you don't know what you're doing, your kid will always remember it & in 20 years someone in their group will post the 3rd grade little league team photo (on snapchat) and you will be in it!

 

[matt267 PE]

Damn, RG, this is a soft side of you I've never seen here.

 

[Road Guy]

just keep it on the down low, don't make me drive up to the 02920..