@SkersNews Nebraska lacks an identity. I'm not saying run the triple option, but it is a copycat offense that keeps it irrelevant. We were great once because we could cherry pick the best that fit "our" system. Now we compete for the same guys with everyone who runs a "multiple" offense.
“People always asked "Why do you pay so much money for your kid to do sports”?
Well I have a confession to make; I don't pay for my kid to “to do sports”
Personally, I couldn't care less about what sport she does
So, if I am not paying for sports what am I paying for?
- I pay for those moments when my kid becomes so tired she wants to quit but doesn’t
- I pay for those days when my kid comes home from school and is “too tired" to go to her training but she goes anyway.
- I pay for my kid to learn to be disciplined, focused and dedicated
- I pay for my kid to learn to take care of her body and learn how to correctly fuel her body for success.
- I pay for my kid to learn to work with others and to be a good team mate, gracious in defeat and humble in success
- I pay for my kid to learn to deal with disappointment, when they don’t get that placing or title they'd hoped for, but still they go back week after week giving it their best shot.
- I pay for my kid to learn to make and accomplish goals
- I pay for my kid to respect, not only themselves, but others, officials, judges and coaches
- I pay for my kid to learn that it takes hours and hours, years and years of hard work and practice to create a champion and that success does not happen overnight
- I pay for my kid to be proud of small achievements, and to work towards long term goals
- I pay for the opportunity my child has and will have to make life-long friendships, create lifelong memories, to be as proud of her achievements as I am
- I pay so that my child can be in the gym instead of in front of a screen
- I pay for those rides home where we make precious memories talking about practice, both good and bad
-I pay so that my child can learn the importance of time management and balancing what is important like school and keeping grades up
I could go on but, to be short, I don't pay for sports
I pay for the opportunities that sports provides my kid with to develop attributes that will serve her well throughout her life and give her the opportunity to bless the lives of others.
From what I have seen I think it is a great investment!”
- Softball Parent
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I do not think we are watching kids fall apart…
I think we are watching adults fall apart, and kids are paying the price.
You see it in schools, at ballgames, in restaurants, and on the roads. You see it in the way a child looks at an adult like the adult is the problem for saying no.
Parents are not parenting these days. Not enough.
Not consistently.
Not in the way kids need.
If we keep pretending everything is fine, we are going to raise a generation that never learned boundaries, never learned respect, and never learned how to handle life when it says no.
I see three kinds of parents right now.
• Parents who are self focused
This is the hardest group for society because nothing gets corrected. Everything becomes an excuse. Everything becomes somebody else’s fault.
They are not always bad people. Many are simply repeating what they lived. Their kids grow up without guard rails, without direction, without correction, without discipline, without the steady love that says, I care enough to stop you.
• Parents who are surviving
These parents love their kids and want to do it right, but they are getting crushed by rent, groceries, car payments, medical bills, overtime, and a world where a livable wage feels out of reach. So they work, and they work, and they work.
While they are doing everything for their children, they barely get to see their children. Kids still need what they have always needed: presence, consistency, boundaries, correction, love, and attention.
• Parents many of us aspire to be like
Attentive, loving, present, willing to say no, and not afraid to lead. What often gets missed is that many of these adults did not grow up with that kind of parenting.
Some came from self focused homes…
Some came from homes that were just surviving…
What changed their path was influence?
Somewhere along the way, someone stepped in and noticed them. A neighbor, a grandparent, a teacher, a coach, a mentor, or a friend’s parent. Someone outside the family circle gave them what they were not getting at home.
Kids need to hear the word no. Not constantly, but enough to learn boundaries, respect, patience, and self control.
No is not mean…
No is protection…
If we are honest, some kids are BEGGING for a no because they want an adult to be the adult.
It shows up in the way you speak to the kid who gets ignored, encourage the teenager who is hanging on by a thread, step in when a child is being raised by the internet, and model respect even when nobody else is.
Sometimes the future of a child changes because an adult decided to say no…
Be safe,
Trooper Ben
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the elites don’t want you to know this, but the United States is still importing soybeans, buckwheat and sunflower oil from a country it’s in a proxy war with 🇷🇺
so you’re telling me American farmers can’t grow and process this stuff at home? 🤔
make it make sense