Parents Your Kid and My Kid are not playing in the Pros....

[tomtnt]

replace Pros with Olympics/Stanford/UCLA/Florida/Utah/etc...

http://www.nuvo.net/GuestVoices/archives/2014/03/18/your-kid-and-my-kid-are-not-playing-in-the-pros

 

[raenndrops]

This is good.
When the girls get injured, THEY are the ones asking the doctor how long they have to be out... and I am right there telling it will be ok and convincing them to FOLLOW doctor's orders - at least for the first 72 hours, lol (no serious injuries so far, thankfully).

Of course, when I was a kid, I opted NOT to tell my parents about my cracked ribs and sprained wrist and ankle because I didn't want to miss any baseball. (I lucked out... massive thunderstorm hit an hour later and the field was flooded for almost a week. When it came time to get ready for practice, DAD finally noticed something was wrong (I avoided doing ANYTHING with an adult around to that point). We ended up at the ER. Ankle and wrist were on the way to healing - just needed braced / wrapped. Ribs were only cracked and starting to heal - they taped them up and said no sports for 1-2 weeks. Then it stormed again (it did that a lot that summer) and as it turned out, I only missed 2 practices and only played 1/2 of the first game back.

 

[profmom]

I think there are crazy parents out there. But I think it is not all the parents. I also remember vividly both times I had serious injuries, my first question was "but when can I ride again?" and both times I cheated like all h3ll. Mom would have killed me if she had known, but that was back in the days of drop your kid off at the barn and pick her up six to eight hours later with no coaches or adult supervision at all.

Ideally the "when can s/he go back?" is being asked so that the parent can perform the appropriate parental role of applying the brakes. The coaches and kids are often into short-term and medium-term time frames; only the parents are thinking about what this will look like when the kid is thirty or forty. Ideally.

Another reason that I love our boys' program director: sometimes he's the one to say it's time to see a specialist because something here just is not right, regardless of what the emergency doc or pediatrician said.