Kids of EB

[matt267 PE]

They used "Idiots," it was on regular tv. She loved the scene where "the bad guys knew they were in a movie and could see themselves on tv and were trying to make now turn to then."

 

[snickerd3]

amazing the power new shoes have over kids. we got minisnick a new pair of gym shoes yesterday that light up and he was on his best behavior and woke up this morning without a fight so he could wear his new shoes.

I feel sorry for his teachers though because he is going to be stomping his fett all day to show EVERYONE how his shoes light up

 

[NJmike PE]

yeah, it's a great way to make them do what you want too. I've used the threat of taking away such items and has worked well.

 

[csb]

my wife is super paranoid about that as well. just do lots and lots of hand washing.. Your probably lucky to have a stay at home old lady when these things come around..

so here is a soccer update!

I talked a guy who seemed over zealous into being the HC and I became the assistant (dude showed up wearing cleats). its going well, since he actually understands the game.. we are 0-2 , we have learned that this soccer league puts friends together so our team is the team of "misfit toys" none of them have ever played together.. getting better .. but hey, its just soccer!

so last Saturday, I get a call from a parent who realized that our game was 30 miles away (south of Denver- we live north of Denver) his basic phone call was " Hey I am super busy today and I don't have 4 hours to spend taking my son to the game so can he ride with you?"

I said yes, probably should have made some excuse like we had already left, it didn't really piss me off until the ride home.. who says that to somebody? sure I would like to do something else for 4 hours on a gorgeous Colorado Saturday also but Jesus Christ.. I guess people are the same all over.. a lady did this to me when I was coaching baseball , I will let you take advantage of me once but if you call the next game day I am going to let your phone go to voice mail..

Can you take my kid to football?

Actually the thing I really like about my kid's football team is how many parents show up to support the team. There's 19 kids on the team, but there's easily 60 people cheering for them. Hell, my kid had six people cheering for him this weekend. The other parents are super nice and really supportive and when one person's kid does great, we all make sure to cheer for them. They are now 3-0 and the only undefeated team. They are talented, but I think being in a supportive environment (coach is super nice, parents are nice) has something to do with it.

Granted, I don't have to drive forever to get to a game, but it seems like a real asshole move to tell your kid you're too busy to go watch them at a game.

 

[Road Guy]

I think it makes it a lot more fun for the kids (when there parents are at the game). when a kid does something good they want to look over and see someone actually there giving a shit ..

Once when my daughter was playing softball I had to leave in the middle of a game to take another of my kids to their game , while I was gone she struck out "the side" when I got back she was sulking in the dugout ,cause when she looked for me after the inning I wasn't there...

we won our first game Saturday, against a team from Boulder, that had 3 girls on it, granted the girls were tougher than most of the boys on the team, I still felt a little cheated in celebrating a 12U soccer victory when their best players were girls (but we will take it)..

oh & the same kid whose dad didn't want to go to the game, divorced parents, last Wednesday practice his mom doesn't show up for over 30 minutes after practice is over, she rolls up in her Mercedes and says sorry I am late my (younger kids from my 2nd husband) just had to have abbotts (ice cream place)...I just rolled my eyes and got back in my crappy car..

 

[csb]

"Sorry I'm late. I love my new kids more than my old kid."

That's what I heard.

 

[csb]

Also, my parents didn't show up for every performance I did, but they showed up at least one night of the show run or the concert or whatever. I get that juggling multiple kids is hard, but it sounds like this dad was like "Wash the car or go watch the kid? Wash the car."

 

[MA_PE]

"My kids having ice cream is more important than your time coach"

That's what I heard.

 

[Road Guy]

yep ( to the new kids thing) sad you can always tell the kids with the bitter divorced parents .... attention starved... he rode is bike over to our house yesterday (unannounced), its a good 5-6 miles from where he lives. I was like great, i've inherited another F'n kid to deal with..

Saturday was crap, daughter had a 8 AM am horse thing, then we had a 11:30 soccer game, oldest band was playing in a parade, we scrambled from soccer to the parade, late, had to park several blocks away, sprinted to the parade so when our kid walked by it would look like we were there the whole time, stayed for 10 minutes, ran back to car to pick up the daughter from her horse thing..ran back to pick up older kid from band, got home around 5:30...

sort of glad I only have 6 years left of this kind of weekend scheduling...which repeats every weekend until Nov 1...

 

[Road Guy]

other coach and I decided if she is late again we are just going to leave and send her a text that we have to go get out other kids ice cream.....

 

[snickerd3]

minisnick screams bloody murder and cries when we try to clip his toe nails. Finger nails no problem, toes... OMG the world is ending.

 

[csb]

We let our kid's toenails grow. He now takes care of them. I hated getting my nails clipped as a kid and the sound of clipping nails makes my skin crawl. So far he hasn't submitted for Guinness World Records or anything, so we're okay.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

If we don't cut our kids' toe nails they will chew them...

 

[NJmike PE]

NJ #3 hates it when her nails are cut so they aren't cut too regularly. That said, she is also in the stage when she's grabbing your face or other body parts while you hold her. It freakin hurts

 

[knight1fox3]

and the sound of clipping nails makes my skin crawl.

That is such an odd thing to hate. It's just a "clicking" sound isn't it? I can see nails on a chalkboard or the like but a short click?

 

[csb]

It's directly tied to the sounds of other people cutting my nails, which was always awful.

 

[csb]

This seems to raise the question again- are all engineers just a little autistic?

 

[matt267 PE]

Most of us are at least socially retarded. But that's for a different topic.

 

[NJmike PE]

speak for yourself

Ladies man here

 

[Road Guy]

I think most of your kids are old enough to be cutting there own toe nails...?