I have a random question. If or when you have kids, do you plan on them playing sports? Why or why not? If you think they will, what sports? Why?
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I plan on that being an option for them. My oldest has wanted to play soccer for the last two years and I've told her, No, not yet. This year, I will probably relent and she will play. I'd like for all of my kids to be involved in something, sports, music, acting, 4h, something...
Um, yes obviously and for a vast variety of reasons. It reveals sin in their hearts first of all. This can lead to very good discussions about heart issues. It trains them to respect leadership that is not your own; assuming that the parents aren't the coach. It teaches them teamwork and how to work with others. It gets them away from the TV and into something active and healthy. It teaches them how to grow in leadership; or it teaches them to follow leadership among the team. Those are only some of them.
They will. They will take music lessons and will be able to participate in some type of team sport or team-related activity. Except for cheer-leading. That should not be considered a sport.
They will take music lessons for obvious reasons: their mother is very gifted (JUST KIDDING! AHAHAHAHA I crack myself up). And I agree with Janelle on the reasons for being involved in sports. However, if I have many children, this might alter somewhat....And if my husband disagrees, that might change a little, too.
I dislike very much the idea of our culture being driven to have their children involved in anything and everything, thus spending tons of money and time. Their involvement in these things will be very purposeful and intentional and not me living vicariously through them.
i agree with janelle and jenn...although I would be hesitant to list "reveals sin in their heart" as a reason for involving them. A lot of times it does, but this is not a good thing and I don't think it's a reason my kids would be involved with sports.
Other then that, I agree with all 3 previous posters. I would add that my kids will most definitely play basketball.
Yes. I want my kids involved in things, but as Jenn says, I don't want to put them in anything and everything possible just because. I would like it to be "purposeful and intentional"...like Caleb having Keegan in gymnastics, not just for fun, but because it will prepare him well (give him "body awareness" as Caleb says) for any sport he may decide he likes later. I would definately like Keegan in Football. We'll see what the girls lean towards later :)
I hope my kids never play football or are in cheerleading. I used to work as an A.D. and they are by far the two sports with the highest amount of injuries.
Trust me. When I share the fact that they are the two highest injury producing sports, people first don't believe me. Then when I convince them that I'm not pulling their leg. They always assume that football is the biggest. Which is incorrect. Cheerleading across the nation produces the most injuries. La Jake is correct, it often occurs when they toss them in the air. This is why many schools have gone to cheerleading as a club. That way they "club" is responsible to carry the cost of its insurance. Wierd or not, you can check it out. The facts are on my side. And I don't even have to be mean like the Pryo's who only have conjecture on their side. :) Sorry Lawr...Jake
One time my brother Josh was reffing a highschool basketball game and, while standing next to the cheerleaders during a play, they threw a girl in the air and she landed on his head!
What I wouldn't have done to have been there to see it. :-)
With 7 kids we decided any sport was fine as long as we could be close enough to observe their attitudes and also see their faces. This ruled out football. :-)
Jake, what do you mean "I would be hesitant to list "reveals sin in their heart" as a reason for involving them. A lot of times it does...
EVERYthing reveals sin in our hearts! And sports certainly has revealed a load of sin in our kids...including you. :-) You don't feel that sanctification is a reason for doing ANY and EVERYthing? Anything that reveals sin is a gift from God.
I just said I would be hesitant cause I think it's a dangerous line of thinking...
I'm going to this potentially compromising situation or place b/c "it will reveal sin in my heart". A lot of times basketball can reveal sin that maybe wouldn't have been obvious in some other arena, but I don't know if that, in and of itself, is a good reason.
Well, for starters all of you who think cheerleading is not a sport then you need to go tryout for it. Not to say it is one of the hardest sports, but it is demanding. Especially when you get into competions and the cheerleaders we saw at basketball games with Metro do not do JUSTICE to the cheerleaders that I saw during high school :) I tried out for it in 10th grade, but moved right before the final tryout. But it was VERY hard.
SO if I ever get married and have children, I would want my kids to play at least one sport and learn an instrument. I want to be there cheering and encouraging them on and for more ovbious reasons now seeing their sin in their heart. It probably would reveal my own too :) My favorite sports are softball,basketball/volleyball. I hope it would be one of those that they decide to take up. I might have a heart attack if they decide that golfing would be fun. BORING!
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I plan on that being an option for them. My oldest has wanted to play soccer for the last two years and I've told her, No, not yet. This year, I will probably relent and she will play.
I'd like for all of my kids to be involved in something, sports, music, acting, 4h, something...
Um, yes obviously and for a vast variety of reasons. It reveals sin in their hearts first of all. This can lead to very good discussions about heart issues. It trains them to respect leadership that is not your own; assuming that the parents aren't the coach. It teaches them teamwork and how to work with others. It gets them away from the TV and into something active and healthy. It teaches them how to grow in leadership; or it teaches them to follow leadership among the team. Those are only some of them.
They will. They will take music lessons and will be able to participate in some type of team sport or team-related activity. Except for cheer-leading. That should not be considered a sport.
They will take music lessons for obvious reasons: their mother is very gifted (JUST KIDDING! AHAHAHAHA I crack myself up). And I agree with Janelle on the reasons for being involved in sports. However, if I have many children, this might alter somewhat....And if my husband disagrees, that might change a little, too.
I dislike very much the idea of our culture being driven to have their children involved in anything and everything, thus spending tons of money and time. Their involvement in these things will be very purposeful and intentional and not me living vicariously through them.
i agree with janelle and jenn...although I would be hesitant to list "reveals sin in their heart" as a reason for involving them. A lot of times it does, but this is not a good thing and I don't think it's a reason my kids would be involved with sports.
Other then that, I agree with all 3 previous posters. I would add that my kids will most definitely play basketball.
Yes. I want my kids involved in things, but as Jenn says, I don't want to put them in anything and everything possible just because. I would like it to be "purposeful and intentional"...like Caleb having Keegan in gymnastics, not just for fun, but because it will prepare him well (give him "body awareness" as Caleb says) for any sport he may decide he likes later. I would definately like Keegan in Football. We'll see what the girls lean towards later :)
I hope my kids never play football or are in cheerleading. I used to work as an A.D. and they are by far the two sports with the highest amount of injuries.
Cheerleading?? Injuries?? Does that seem wierd to anyone else?
it's cause they throw the other girls in the air and then start putting on makeup and forget to catch them
Trust me. When I share the fact that they are the two highest injury producing sports, people first don't believe me. Then when I convince them that I'm not pulling their leg. They always assume that football is the biggest. Which is incorrect. Cheerleading across the nation produces the most injuries. La Jake is correct, it often occurs when they toss them in the air. This is why many schools have gone to cheerleading as a club. That way they "club" is responsible to carry the cost of its insurance.
Wierd or not, you can check it out. The facts are on my side. And I don't even have to be mean like the Pryo's who only have conjecture on their side. :)
Sorry Lawr...Jake
One time my brother Josh was reffing a highschool basketball game and, while standing next to the cheerleaders during a play, they threw a girl in the air and she landed on his head!
What I wouldn't have done to have been there to see it. :-)
With 7 kids we decided any sport was fine as long as we could be close enough to observe their attitudes and also see their faces. This ruled out football. :-)
Jake, what do you mean "I would be hesitant to list "reveals sin in their heart" as a reason for involving them. A lot of times it does...
EVERYthing reveals sin in our hearts! And sports certainly has revealed a load of sin in our kids...including you. :-) You don't feel that sanctification is a reason for doing ANY and EVERYthing? Anything that reveals sin is a gift from God.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding?
I just said I would be hesitant cause I think it's a dangerous line of thinking...
I'm going to this potentially compromising situation or place b/c "it will reveal sin in my heart". A lot of times basketball can reveal sin that maybe wouldn't have been obvious in some other arena, but I don't know if that, in and of itself, is a good reason.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Well, for starters all of you who think cheerleading is not a sport then you need to go tryout for it. Not to say it is one of the hardest sports, but it is demanding. Especially when you get into competions and the cheerleaders we saw at basketball games with Metro do not do JUSTICE to the cheerleaders that I saw during high school :)
I tried out for it in 10th grade, but moved right before the final tryout. But it was VERY hard.
SO if I ever get married and have children, I would want my kids to play at least one sport and learn an instrument. I want to be there cheering and encouraging them on and for more ovbious reasons now seeing their sin in their heart. It probably would reveal my own too :)
My favorite sports are
softball,basketball/volleyball.
I hope it would be one of those that they decide to take up. I might have a heart attack if they decide that golfing would be fun. BORING!
Kathy. You're wrong about cheerleading...oh, so wrong!!! It's about skirts and ribbons and curls and make-up. ;o)
But I will agree with ya on the golfing...*yawn*.
No football? Interesting...
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