Here I am I thinking I tend to take things literal over a written media.  Good grief.  No I do not let my 6 yr old win.  But in her learning years I do allow some things to happen sports wise.  I’m sorry i didn’t post our collective sports life and n full.  But in general, no! I give her few breaks.  I’ve been called an [BLEEP] more times I can count.  But I raise my daughter very similar as I was raised.  If anything negative can be said about that… I say good luck to you! Not to her, not to me. Her and I will be just fine.  

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Here I am I thinking I tend to take things literal over a written media.  Good grief.  No I do not let my 6 yr old win.  But in her learning years I do allow some things to happen sports wise.  I’m sorry i didn’t post our collective sports life and n full.  But in general, no! I give her few breaks.  I’ve been called an [BLEEP] more times I can count.  But I raise my daughter very similar as I was raised.  If anything negative can be said about that… I say good luck to you! Not to her, not to me.

Didn't you know? These people on this board are better fathers to your daughter than you are.. They know what's best for her, not you.


Don't listen to those jackasses..

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Here I am I thinking I tend to take things literal over a written media.  Good grief.  No I do not let my 6 yr old win.  But in her learning years I do allow some things to happen sports wise.  I’m sorry i didn’t post our collective sports life and n full.  But in general, no! I give her few breaks.  I’ve been called an [BLEEP] more times I can count.  But I raise my daughter very similar as I was raised.  If anything negative can be said about that… I say good luck to you! Not to her, not to me.

Obviously you can raise her how you want. I didn’t mean to imply that you’re doing it wrong.

I think my main point was that in my 20 years of coaching/teaching kids from all ages, the early years are extremely important. I’ve seen kids burnt out at 11 from being pushed way too hard. I’ve seen kids not be pushed enough. I’ve seen kids find a love for a sport only to have their parents absolutely squash that love.

There should be a balance and of course there’s not always one way to do things. Find what works for your kid and go from there. How you were taught to do something when you were younger may not always work on your own kid.

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Here I am I thinking I tend to take things literal over a written media.  Good grief.  No I do not let my 6 yr old win.  But in her learning years I do allow some things to happen sports wise.  I’m sorry i didn’t post our collective sports life and n full.  But in general, no! I give her few breaks.  I’ve been called an [BLEEP] more times I can count.  But I raise my daughter very similar as I was raised.  If anything negative can be said about that… I say good luck to you! Not to her, not to me.

Obviously you can raise her how you want. I didn’t mean to imply that you’re doing it wrong.

I think my main point was that in my 20 years of coaching/teaching kids from all ages, the early years are extremely important. I’ve seen kids burnt out at 11 from being pushed way too hard. I’ve seen kids not be pushed enough. I’ve seen kids find a love for a sport only to have their parents absolutely squash that love.

There should be a balance and of course there’s not always one way to do things. Find what works for your kid and go from there. How you were taught to do something when you were younger may not always work on your own kid.

I totally agree with you on that.  I don’t try to force sports on her. They come up an my inner child comes out. As a dad, I show her how it’s done.  There are some she takes a liking to, others not so much. But those she takes an interest in I show her the right way of doing it.  I will admit, as much of a hard [BLEEP] i may come across as,  I am “softer” than my dad was.  But I do take the same principles in teaching her.  I guess if I said that originally there wouldn’t have been so much doubt/questioning.  I assume most on her had a similar or “worse” (I use that word loosely) upbringing as I did.  I doubt the majority of us are millennials based off what I read.  I try to instill upon my daughter the same values I’ve been raised to have, yet omit the obvious *smack on the back of the head* “what the [BLEEP] is your problem” routines.  But if you’re gonna do it, you need to do it right.

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