you are "old", I am older (credentials: 68 ; 2 kids, 4 grand-children; currently working as asst. to kindergarten teachers... ) & can tell you that you've NEVER written truer words than "You can just be there for them when you need them and leave them alone when they don’t. I don’t know if they’re prepared. But I’m pretty sure I’m not." Good luck, hang in there...
I still remember fondly my Dad taking me to see a Texas Rangers game in 1974 on the way to Oklahoma (long story). A 400 hundred odd mile drive up from the border of Texas/Mexico. A troubled teen and his non plussed Dad navigating choppy waters. Entering the stadium (yes, the former minor league stadium home of the Rangers) I marveled at a field of grass so green as I had never seen in my life! I, math inclined, kept score. We bonded. For the next 47 years (still going thank GOD) all of life's ups and downs became sport related, yet somehow linked to the then current reality. I treasure that memory and to the links it has allowed to my Dad. I'm saddened now that he won't watch the Dallas Cowboys any more because they have let him down for 23 years, but he is 81 years old. It's ok, because when he stopped relying on the Cowboys years ago, he made a more personal connection to reality and me. Sports can be useful, but they can and should be a bridge to something more.....
I don't understand why the sex talk with kids is hard. I was a voracious reader so my Mom gave me a great book on what my 13 year old body (late bloomer!) would go through. Plus I had HBO on cable in the 1970's before they figured out R movies should be a nighttime thing. Play it by ear Will.
Come on. The complaints about baseball article is disingenuous and deceptive. At least tell us you work for mlb in the article you write explaining why everyone who dislikes baseball is wrong
you are "old", I am older (credentials: 68 ; 2 kids, 4 grand-children; currently working as asst. to kindergarten teachers... ) & can tell you that you've NEVER written truer words than "You can just be there for them when you need them and leave them alone when they don’t. I don’t know if they’re prepared. But I’m pretty sure I’m not." Good luck, hang in there...
I still remember fondly my Dad taking me to see a Texas Rangers game in 1974 on the way to Oklahoma (long story). A 400 hundred odd mile drive up from the border of Texas/Mexico. A troubled teen and his non plussed Dad navigating choppy waters. Entering the stadium (yes, the former minor league stadium home of the Rangers) I marveled at a field of grass so green as I had never seen in my life! I, math inclined, kept score. We bonded. For the next 47 years (still going thank GOD) all of life's ups and downs became sport related, yet somehow linked to the then current reality. I treasure that memory and to the links it has allowed to my Dad. I'm saddened now that he won't watch the Dallas Cowboys any more because they have let him down for 23 years, but he is 81 years old. It's ok, because when he stopped relying on the Cowboys years ago, he made a more personal connection to reality and me. Sports can be useful, but they can and should be a bridge to something more.....
You met Bob Gibson!!?? Where's that column?
I don't understand why the sex talk with kids is hard. I was a voracious reader so my Mom gave me a great book on what my 13 year old body (late bloomer!) would go through. Plus I had HBO on cable in the 1970's before they figured out R movies should be a nighttime thing. Play it by ear Will.
I love your friends parents description of sex!
Come on. The complaints about baseball article is disingenuous and deceptive. At least tell us you work for mlb in the article you write explaining why everyone who dislikes baseball is wrong