Am I Old?
 

Soccer camp was this week. There was a mix of kids aged between six and eleven. Can you guess which kids were the whiniest? The 10-11 boys. All the girls just did what they were supposed to do. The boys were the whiniest snivelling lamest good for nothing crybabies I'd ever seen.

Too hot. Don't want to put on pennies. Stayed up too late. Have baseball tomorrow. Had a game last night. Thirsty. Don't like the rain. Hungry. Too full from breakfast. Don't like my shirt. Forgot my ball. We did that yesterday. You're too fast. My partner sucks. My ball sucks. My feet hurt. My shinguards are uncomfortable. The sun is in my eyes. Too much wind.

Damn.

Those boys my friend are the product of being raised by their mothers without the influence of a Father figure. Trust me on this one. :)

Yes.

PS--I won't be passing thru MN on the way home from my road trip. My dad is having some health issues so I need to take a more southern route to visit him.

Hehehe, I can't stand younger kids. I do NOT want children. Maybe later on I will grow to have patience with insubordination, but I doubt that.


Kaun, if you knew me when I was younger you would have hated me. In fact if I had to be a parent for a version of me 6-13 I would have sold me to child slave traders in Columbia :eek:

I was such a bad kid. So so bad. The funny thing is, my mom was the hardest on me. Dad was mostly absent from my life and my step dad was a too nice :P

By hard, I mean grounding, yelling, spanking, and I do remember an occasional smack!

In comparison my younger brother was a saint. Now he's the problem child (bad grades, lies, sneaks out) and I'm the mature one.Go figure :confused:

Kids are whiny in general. My youngest brother is almost 10 right now and he'll complain just about everything. I'll go and do the cliched, "In my day blah blah" story and say buck up. Tends to work most of the time. http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...ons/icon12.gif

Just ignore them, you're a coach not a hotel concierge!

Good thing you didn't grab any of them and yell in their faces like that guy in the other thread! Good self restraint.:)

It has nothing to do with being raised without father figures. It has to do with being raised with permissive parents, male OR female or both. It has to do with parents who permit their kids to snivel and whine without consequence. I taught 10-13 year olds for 31 years and raised my own. Any parent of either sex is perfectly capable of setting expectations and delineating non-negotiable consequences and sticking to them, but many or most these days simply don't.
Having two parents these days is ideal, but unrealistic and not absolutely necessary, IF the parent in charge is willing to consistently PARENT, not just feed and clothe.

loud clapping and whistling....poor parents are responsible for whiny kids that become crappy adults. And thus the cycle lives through self perpetuation...

You got that right!;)

Unfortunately, coddling children has become epidemic in our country. Parents trying to protect children from everything imagineable, keep them from saying anything politically incorrect, and attempting to remove every obstacle or hurdle in their paths has made us soft and pathetic.

huh?
 

What does "Don't want to put on pennies" mean?

When I was a kid, I got a lot of "where have you been all day?" questioning. Usually fishing, bike riding, throwing stuff into water, hiking in swamps, trying to talk to girls. You know. The usual...for back then.

X2

uhh...Penny Loafers ? (ie: nice shoes)

? am I right (at age 35)

-John

Oh those are those things you put on over your jersey when you scrimmage. Scrimmage vests so you don't have to go shirts/skins.

Coddled children may grow up to be some of the biggest losers in life. Just look around to see it. Whiny kids become whiny adults - the seemingly unlucky.

Thankfully my parents sent me to a military prep school as a young teen for a number of years. Fierce self-reliance, and an independent spirit were just two of the benefits gained which carry you through life. Doing your job well and self-discipline becomes easy as an adult, allowing one to flourish. Sometimes you just get lucky growing up.

That was my thought too...

The original Bass weejuns!:o

http://www.e-shoes.com/bassweejuns.html

They haven't gone up too much in the last oh 40 years or so. :P
Anyone still wearing them?