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kids and sports

Here's a picture of Lil Lilly today on her new horse, first time she's ran him in a real competition. Exhibitioned last night for the first time. She done real good, didnt win nothin, but made a clean run and did everything right. Speed will come later. She ran a 19.9 today, but the horse is capable of 16s......now she's gotta git with it
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One thing I found is that you will never regret going and watching the kids........but you could very well regret not going.
 
Oh yes, true words, passin thru.

When our daughter jr. rodeoed when she was little, I took her. But when we moved to Western Montana I didn't want to drive those mountain roads by myself. Mr. FH wasn't used to going as he stayed home and worked. (He is of the generation that if you didn't work every waking moment, you weren't worth much.) Anyway, I told him, she isn't going to remember that you paid her way, she is going to remember that you weren't there. So he took us and it was a good time for all. We got to meet some interesting people, trade a few horses and just enjoy ourselves. And the work got done in spite of it. She got a rodeo scholarship out of the deal and continues to Team Rope and Breakaway rope even yet.

Nice pic, Lily, but here's a bit of a hint. Sit where you can get the horse coming around the second barrel towards you. Much more exciting of a picture. (But you probably knew that... :wink: )

Go Lil Lilly!!!!
 
passin thru said:
One thing I found is that you will never regret going and watching the kids........but you could very well regret not going.
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how very true :cry: too many times, I missed my daughter's jr high games in volleyball and basketball because i had to work...thank goodness my job now has "self-scheduling" so that I may work my schedule around her games...and not the other way around!! But, what I would give to get those missed years back with her!! :(
 
We just had a couple fun days. Peach and I took the Kosmo Kid and five of his buddies down to Doniphan, Nebraska (just south of Grand Island) to the statewide trap shoot. There were 1500 kids there trap shooting, in a very well-organized fast moving event. This was my first experience even watching something like this, and I must say that it was impressive. Each youngster shot a hundred rounds each day. K.K. shot 86 out of a hundred the first day, and 81 yesterday. One of our boys shot 94 the first day, but his gun malfunctioned yesterday, and a back-up gun didn't work well for him.

Anyway we all enjoyed the experience, and the road trip.
 
These kids sports are one of the greatest things for a kid (and parent). There are so many life lessons to be learned from them it is amazing. Sometimes I think I learned more than my kids

Life ain't always fair
It is in your mind(desire)
When to let loose
That you are with them when they are participating
They are still the same kid win or loose
If they lose....sometimes they need some alone time
You ain't gonna be a professional athlete
College sports are like professional
There are other things than sports
There are many friendships developed in kids sports
It isnt just about yourself
Working together
etc

Boy I could probably write a book on what I learned and the rituals and quirks we had.
Develop your own language between you and your kids that only you two know

Enjoy it while you can
 
My photography skills/timing wasn't good.......daggum digital camera and the pause before it takes the pictures.....they are great for most things. but when there's fast movement, you hafta time everthang just right. LOL
 
passin thru----hope you do not mind me copying off your words of wisdom and sharing them with some of our town's infamous "soccer parents"....we all know the type-----they gain their own "glory" through their kids' sports and they are the loudest in the crowd (good and bad), they yell at the coaches, they yell at the refs, they boo and jeer, they scream at their own kids when they mess up, they "could always be a better coach" than the one on the field/court, they love to criticize each and every play and they LOVE to coach from the stands!! no wonder I have a tendancy to sit in my own little corner with a few choice people during high school games!! :roll: :roll:
 
ranchwife thanks for the compliment. I don't see any magic in my words.
You know sometimes when my kids competed I would go off to somewhere quiet, I was no a yeller and I tried to respect the opponents parents........after all they wanted their kids to win also.

You know it was one of the hardest things to quit coaching and just be a parent. I think it was easier to talk with my kids about their sports when I was just a spectator.

On that language I talked about.............we had a sign language. The other parents always wondered what I was saying and telling them what to do. Little did they know it wasn't anything to do with their sports.

I really enjoy all the pics and stories of the kids being active whether sports are not. These are what life is about.
 
Passin thru.. Good advice: I thought I was the only one with sign language to my son. Just an expression, a smile, Carter knows what I'm saying: We work together as a family we all know what each other is saying by hand signals or mouthing words.. BUT DON'T HONK THE HORN AT ME!! That ticks me off....
 
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Here's proof you can't hit them all-he did tag the next pitch though lol. As for parents coaching from the sidelines-do your kid a favour and stop it-your job as a parent is to bring your athlete to the sport ready to compete and to support them win or lose. IT'S NOT TO SECOND GUESS THE COACH-if you want to coach-take on the job or ask to help. It doesn't take me long especially in hockey to tell which players are getting it from the stands. That's as bad as 4H parents signalling to their kids while they're setting up their calves.
 
NR---- :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

I hear your words about how parents simply need to STOP!!!! Went to see my nephew play baseball tonight and when he went up to bat, he caught the pitch right smack in the left flank where his kidney rests....went down on his knees and had tears in his eyes and his dad (my brother in law) was yelling at him to "get on your feet and cowboy up!! You're fine"...love the man dearly, but this made me look twice!! Poor kid got up and limped his way to the first baseman!! What are we doing to our kids??? Making them "tough"??? At what price??? :cry: :cry:
 
I'd of just told him -'It's a long ways from your heart'. I meant more in general coaching-doesn't hurt a kid to gut it out once in awhile-you soon learn in hockey-which kids are bandaids and which kids are really hurt. I've got a couple boys I coach-Ty is one of them if they lay on the ice-you might as well call the hearse lol. I never make a kid play hurt but you have to play with discomfort at times. Some kids lame duck it to get out of tough games or practices-not much tolerance from that-we had one guy was bad for it-I left him laying out there at the end of the period and took the rest of the team to the dressing room-he finally wandered in so the zamboni didn't hit him-cured him of whatever imaginery aches he had that game.As for your nephew-it didn't kill him and I'm sure it made him stronger-not sure how old he is. Your brother should of let the coach and trainer deal with it though. My biggest fear as a hockey coach is getting a bad injury in a game-so far we've only had three broken bones in all the years i've coached-the speed those kids play at i'd hate to see something worse.
 
It there's no serious damage done, it's no different than makin a kid get back on a horse after fallin off.

Lil Lilly plays Volley ball and Basketball too, nothin wrong with hollerin and rootin for your team, but I don't coach from the sidelines....not my job. Sides, I dont even understand all the new stuff they do in either of those sports. It's so different than when I was in highschool and played.
Now when she barrel races. or when she's practicin, I will holler out for her to "reach", or "look up" but I hardly ever hafta do that anymore cuz she's improved so much in the last year or so, and she's doin it already.
Now we just gotta work on gettin her to drive him from barrel one to barrel two.
 
As a coach a guy has to realize the parents are just doing what they think is best even though I'd like to strangle them sometimes. One thing coaching helped me through BSE-we dropped six figures of equity overnight and I couldn't sleep at night worrying about line matchups for my next hockeygame. I love coaching at all levels-just as much fun watching prenovice stumble around as it is watching AA shake and bake.
 
I remember playing baseball when i was about 12.. Took a pitch right in the middle of my shoulder blades.. I remember jumping and someone saying if I had ducked it would have hit me in the head and if I had just turned it would have got me in the base of the neck. I dropped like a rcok to the ground and my dad, who was a coach came out. I got up, rubbed the dirt off my pants and went down to first.. The hardest thing isn't getting up, it is getting back in the box..

My dad and mom were they a lot for me in sports growing up, Mom coached soccar, took us to practices and things like that. Dad would play catch in the backyard and "coached" baeebal even though he was no the most athletic guy in the world and as very busy.. They never screamed (well, my dad never did, mom was an animated soccor coach) bt I knew parents who would always watch the games as far from their kids as possible because they didn't want their presence to distract their kids... Good or bad my friends understood that their folks just wanted to succed and wanted their coaches to be able to coach without hearing the growns from the parents..
 

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