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    RIP Tosa, my trolling end now Senior Member Devastatin Dave's Avatar
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    My duaghter loves gymnastics. Its non competitive and its called "parent play". Basically I get in there with there with her and help. She's starting with just her by herself with the teacher and classmates this session. She loves it and when she doesn't want to do it, we go home. My sone plays soccer and is 5. Again, its noncompettitive and teaches kids the basics of kicking, passing, stuff like that. My kids enjoy the activities and its something the whole family can enjoy.

    Will I continue to put my kids in sports or arts as they get older? Sure I will, if they want to. My folks let me do all sorts of things when I was young, soccer, baseball, violen, bass guitar, chorus, etc. I have a lot of great memories about these experiences and not once did my folks yell at me for not trying harder or whatever. Those type of parents are crap and they are out there. My kids get my wife and my support, pride, and love. We just want them to enjoy themselves. The only rule we have is one thing at a time. We don't want are kids to be doing 2 or 3 sports and mulitiple arts at the same time.

    You guys may not believe this, but I'm very patient with my kids. You guys just get the fall-out from my Buddist like patience around the house!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave View Post
    My duaghter loves gymnastics. Its non competitive and its called "parent play". Basically I get in there with there with her and help. She's starting with just her by herself with the teacher and classmates this session. She loves it and when she doesn't want to do it, we go home. My sone plays soccer and is 5. Again, its noncompettitive and teaches kids the basics of kicking, passing, stuff like that. My kids enjoy the activities and its something the whole family can enjoy.

    Will I continue to put my kids in sports or arts as they get older? Sure I will, if they want to. My folks let me do all sorts of things when I was young, soccer, baseball, violen, bass guitar, chorus, etc. I have a lot of great memories about these experiences and not once did my folks yell at me for not trying harder or whatever. Those type of parents are crap and they are out there. My kids get my wife and my support, pride, and love. We just want them to enjoy themselves. The only rule we have is one thing at a time. We don't want are kids to be doing 2 or 3 sports and mulitiple arts at the same time.

    You guys may not believe this, but I'm very patient with my kids. You guys just get the fall-out from my Buddist like patience around the house!!!
    And that's the way you should do it Dave. Though I'm not completely sure about just one thing at a time. If it's easy to combine both why not? I played the guitar and used to play tennis at the same time. Never had problems with it, nor with school.

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