Comments on: Friday is for . . . Friends http://www.stonesthrowblog.com/2008/03/14/friday-is-for-friends/ Random ramblings of a campus pastor in Carthage, MO. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:55:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill Stone http://www.stonesthrowblog.com/2008/03/14/friday-is-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 Bill Stone Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:11:51 +0000 http://www.stonesthrowblog.com/2008/03/14/friday-is-for-friends/#comment-1608 David: You said it much better than I ever could. One of the problems is the fact that we as parents have consciously or unconsciously attempted to live our dreams through our children. Thus we have parents enrolling kids in all sorts of specialized programs for sports or other things and push the kids to achieve more and more so that they will be the next Tiger Woods or Bret Farve. This push has now extended to school sports--and apparently to the employment and retention of coaches based on winning. What's next? Retention or firing of middle school coaches on the basis of the team record. I hope not. Keep up your good work, maybe you can help make us better parents and citizens one step at a time. David: You said it much better than I ever could. One of the problems is the fact that we as parents have consciously or unconsciously attempted to live our dreams through our children. Thus we have parents enrolling kids in all sorts of specialized programs for sports or other things and push the kids to achieve more and more so that they will be the next Tiger Woods or Bret Farve. This push has now extended to school sports–and apparently to the employment and retention of coaches based on winning. What’s next? Retention or firing of middle school coaches on the basis of the team record. I hope not. Keep up your good work, maybe you can help make us better parents and citizens one step at a time.

]]> By: Fran http://www.stonesthrowblog.com/2008/03/14/friday-is-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1607 Fran Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:42:24 +0000 http://www.stonesthrowblog.com/2008/03/14/friday-is-for-friends/#comment-1607 Good job David. I hope if nothing else comes out of this some really good people take a look at themselves and what is truly important. I, too, would have been proud to have Randy coach either of my children - because I think he would have taught them so much more than basketball. Good job David. I hope if nothing else comes out of this some really good people take a look at themselves and what is truly important. I, too, would have been proud to have Randy coach either of my children – because I think he would have taught them so much more than basketball.

]]> By: John http://www.stonesthrowblog.com/2008/03/14/friday-is-for-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-1604 John Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:34:26 +0000 http://www.stonesthrowblog.com/2008/03/14/friday-is-for-friends/#comment-1604 Another aspect of the extreme competitiveness of Jr. High and High School sports is that many other kids are convinced that they aren't any good at sports and so they give up--even on recreational sports. We have an entire generation of kids that are inactive. National estimates say that the upcoming generation will be the first in history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Sometimes it is okay to teach the game so that our kids can have fun and be healthy. A fine rant, David. Another aspect of the extreme competitiveness of Jr. High and High School sports is that many other kids are convinced that they aren’t any good at sports and so they give up–even on recreational sports. We have an entire generation of kids that are inactive. National estimates say that the upcoming generation will be the first in history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Sometimes it is okay to teach the game so that our kids can have fun and be healthy.

A fine rant, David.

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