Category Archives: Sports

In Defense of Parents

  All too often the focus on youth sports is drawn to the outrageous acts of the parents involved. There are a multitude of YouTube videos showing dad’s fighting in the stands, mom’s screaming at officials, parent/coaches blowing their tops and assaulting anything in sight.  We read stories about rich folk flying their child’s AAU […]

Born to Ride

  There are three requsite skills every child should learn on their path to young adulthood.  They are, in order of accomplishment and/or importance: climbing, swimming and bike riding.  Kid’s should learn a number of other things like reading, writing, counting, looking both ways before they cross the street, not to get in cars with […]