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Post by swamp on Oct 22, 2012 11:10:40 GMT -5
DS wants to keep playing hockey. Last year, it was 2 days a week. This year, it's 4 days a week. He's freakin' 6.  |
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Post by Formerly SK on Oct 22, 2012 11:18:39 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm with you. I'm seriously doubting how good it is for kids to be racing around so much. I want to sit with my kids and do puzzles, etc. I really wrestle with finding the appropriate balance.
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Post by swamp on Oct 22, 2012 11:24:25 GMT -5
He really enjoys it, but I think it's too much. 2 days a week was perfect.
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 22, 2012 11:24:29 GMT -5
DS wants to keep playing hockey. Last year, it was 2 days a week. This year, it's 4 days a week. He's freakin' 6. What's the age for a drivers license in upstate NY? (I miss ToughTimes when speaking of upstate NY.) |
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Post by swamp on Oct 22, 2012 11:26:36 GMT -5
We don't need no stinkin' driver's license. WE just drive the tractors through the potato fields.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2012 11:37:22 GMT -5
Tell him that the NHL can never seem to get their act together between the players an the owners. That should be enough to put him off hockey.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2012 11:37:49 GMT -5
Tough Times thought Yonkers was upstate NY. lol
Sounds like your little guy is more committed than the NHL players.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Oct 22, 2012 11:47:33 GMT -5
Youth sports' schedules can be overwhelming at times for sure. But, I like to think keeping constructively busy with youth and high school sports is a good thing for my kids. It keeps their names out of the police log in the local newspaper.  |
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Post by thyme4change on Oct 22, 2012 12:25:19 GMT -5
6 sounds young for 4 days a week - but I will say that I wish my son was in a 4-day, 60-90 minute program. The kid makes me crazy with his energy. Recess no longer exists, and he isn't enough of an independent thinker to figure out how to just "go outside and play." So, he sits inside and plays video games or watches TV. I wish he had something structured to do every day - just to burn off the juice.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2012 12:27:19 GMT -5
Well, if you think you can handle having the extra 2 days added to your plate I say go for it. I wouldn't, but I am a bad Mom because currently neither of my kids is enrolled in any extracurricular activity.  |
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 22, 2012 12:28:15 GMT -5
We don't need no stinkin' driver's license. WE just drive the tractors through the potato fields. That's what they do down here. Tots don't start out on tricycles-they start out on cotton picking machines.  |
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Oct 22, 2012 12:32:00 GMT -5
We don't need no stinkin' driver's license. WE just drive the tractors through the potato fields. That's what they do down here. Tots don't start out on tricycles-they start out on cotton picking machines. Oh, Tennesseer, say it's not so!!! You're raising a bunch of spoiled tots!! Let them go out and pick by hand like the rest of us did. It builds character and then they can save to buy their own darn tricycles. |
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Post by vonna on Oct 22, 2012 12:33:58 GMT -5
Well, if you think you can handle having the extra 2 days added to your plate I say go for it. I wouldn't, but I am a bad Mom because currently neither of my kids is enrolled in any extracurricular activity.  |
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 22, 2012 12:40:18 GMT -5
That's what they do down here. Tots don't start out on tricycles-they start out on cotton picking machines. Oh, Tennesseer, say it's not so!!! You're raising a bunch of spoiled tots!! Let them go out and pick by hand like the rest of us did. It builds character and then they can save to buy their own darn tricycles. Who needs seasonal immigrants to pick cotton, tomatoes, apple, melons and the like. Send out the tots until they are school age. |
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Oct 22, 2012 12:40:24 GMT -5
On a serious note, Swamp, you did recently express the desire/need to cut back on your schedule. Will 2 more days of hockey mess with your plans?
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Oct 22, 2012 12:40:55 GMT -5
Oh, Tennesseer, say it's not so!!! You're raising a bunch of spoiled tots!! Let them go out and pick by hand like the rest of us did. It builds character and then they can save to buy their own darn tricycles. Who needs seasonal immigrants to pick tomatoes, apple, melons and the like. Send out the tots! Well, what other reason would there be to have tots in the first place? |
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 22, 2012 12:42:00 GMT -5
Is that where we got the name 'Tater Tots'?
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Post by swamp on Oct 22, 2012 12:45:13 GMT -5
On a serious note, Swamp, you did recently express the desire/need to cut back on your schedule. Will 2 more days of hockey mess with your plans? yes. I'll suck it up until FEbruary. |
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Post by giramomma on Oct 22, 2012 12:48:09 GMT -5
We probably wouldn't go for it either. We limit extra activities. I don't know how families do it. My nearly 5 year is in bed at 7. School gets out at 3:20, and the kids play on the playground for a half hour, getting home at 4. Even on the days the kids leave right after school is done, there's not a ton of time for activities.
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Post by taz157 on Oct 22, 2012 12:53:16 GMT -5
My neighbor's 12 year old DD is on 2 soccer teams. In talking to my neighbor, her DD hasn't had a weekend day to herself since mid-August.  I'm not sure about 1 of the teams, but the other team is constantly travelling to different games on the weekends. And it's not a half hour travel. Some of the games have been 2 to 6 hours away. My DH thinks that is ridicouls (sp?). FWIW, my DH was involved in traveling sports when he was growing up (he was a very good baseball pitcher), but they didn't start "traveling" until mid-teens, not pre-teens like now. Also, we have moved states from where he grew up to now.  |
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Post by thyme4change on Oct 22, 2012 12:53:43 GMT -5
For my family - if practice went from 4:30 to 5:30 (or even 6) it would be okay - we would eat together at 6 or 6:30, and still have time to do homework, etc. But my daughter is in practice from 4:30 to 7:30 three nights a week - and that is terrible. We never eat together on those nights, and usually are moving in all sorts of directions. Even though the rest of us could eat together - it never seems to work that way. If two of us sit together, we call it a "Win."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2012 12:56:25 GMT -5
DS wants to keep playing hockey. Last year, it was 2 days a week. This year, it's 4 days a week. He's freakin' 6. Just wait til the 5 am practices.  |
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Post by skubikky on Oct 22, 2012 14:03:43 GMT -5
Swamp
Is this travel hockey, house or developmental? 4 days a week is a lot for a six year old.
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Post by Bob Ross on Oct 22, 2012 16:20:45 GMT -5
You could always ruin the sport for him by becoming one of those over-competitive obnoxious hockey parents. And if any of the other parents get pissed at you, shout that you'll sue them because that's what you do.
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Post by swamp on Oct 22, 2012 18:01:07 GMT -5
SwampIs this travel hockey, house or developmental? 4 days a week is a lot for a six year old. A combination of all 3, I think. There aren't enough teams in town to compete, so there is some travel, but not very far. |
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I'm not sure about 1 of the teams, but the other team is constantly travelling to different games on the weekends. And it's not a half hour travel. Some of the games have been 2 to 6 hours away. 
