A View Of Sports and Other Blog-Spots

[Shana A]

A View Of Sports and Other Blog-Spots
Posted August 18, 2008

http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/a-view-of-other-spots/

To be very honest, I didn't sleep well last night, too much late coffee and am feeling it today. Besides, the overriding concern in my life right now seem to be my 10-year olds venture into "tackle-football" of the Pop Warner variety! *sigh*

I feel a poor mom because shouldn't I be remanding him to more artistic and less violent pursuits? Shouldn't I be totally against him even beginning to enter into a sport that places an emphasis on size, strength and crushing the opponent with such vigor that ijuries, sometimes fatal, often horrendous occur with a fair amount of regularity? What are they going to do with my baby!! Will they not turn him into some sort of swaggering, spitting, bulky and ruthless alien I never knew?

[lisagurl]

Peer pressure is a strong thing. A parent has very little recourse to change the mind of their children.

In my case I find sports uninviting. My son played soccer, I picked him up and dropped him off at games and practice. He got frustrated early on,  lacking the skills. I do not have the skills so I was no help. He wanted to quit mid-season but I told him he had a responsibility to the team to finish the season. He never wanted to play sports again.

[NicholeW.]

This is my son's first "tackle" year. He played touch last year and loved it. Older and bigger he's "graduated" now. And after a week of practice is still anxious to keep playing. He like the game and is a pretty good blocker.

So, we shall see.

In the meantime if you read to the end you can find some interesting blog spots as well.

N~

Posted on: August 18, 2008, 03:46:10 PMO Z, thanks for putting it up. Hope it gets found in General Discussions. But that was kind of your to link it. Thanks.

Nichole

[Shana A]

O Z, thanks for putting it up. Hope it gets found in General Discussions. But that was kind of your to link it.

I thought about putting in gender studies, but nobody ever posts there... I figured it would be seen more here. If you think there's a more appropriate place, let me know.

Hmmmmm, i just realized there's no sports section here. I hadn't missed it 

Z

[NicholeW.]

I cannot for now; but should something arise I shall.

N~

[Shana A]

Moved to Opinions and Editorials.

Z

[tekla]

Sports can be cool.  They range in levels and complexity, matter of fact, here is a pretty good article about some of the more obscure ones.

http://www.alternet.org/story/95780/a_parade_of_weird_little_worlds%3A_the_olympics_for_non-sports_fans/


The trouble is, that at some point, right around high school that football does turn from a fun game into a blood sport, and that should not be discounted, nor should the high rate of injury.