Why is it always the guy with the stopwatch when the kid runs a 7.8 while daddy says he runs a 6.8 ?? And then he can produce people to testify that what he says is so

We already have Daddy's Radar gun and now we have Daddy's Stopwatch !!!!

Just wondering why !!!!!

its a mystery

TRHit, do you want an answer?

1. My Little John John has to be better than your little Joey because we are better parents.

2. We have spent $$$$$ on private coaches which is $$$$ more than anyone else has spent and so our John John is better.

3. I hate my job. I hate my life. At times I hate my Wife. However, my John John is perfect and that screwball is ruining his career because they timed him wrong.

4. I want John John to be good even if he doesn't have the drive yet to be good.

5. All coaches suck!

6. When my boss tells me about how good his Joey is, I have to one up him because my pride won't allow him to top me at everything.

(Just want to say that I've done this a long time and what I've posted here would be the exception and not the rule with the parents I've dealt with. However, I do have a parent's meeting every year!!!)

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Originally posted by TRhit:
Why is it always the guy with the stopwatch when the kid runs a 7.8 while daddy says he runs a 6.8 ?? And then he can produce people to testify that what he says is so

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Aw common Tom, I only said my son could run a 6.9 and I have witnesses. Don't exagerate

B25, too much coffee??

This can be a very fun type thread

Keep it coming

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Originally posted by Bee>:
B25, too much coffee??

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DIET COKE!!! I'M NOT OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK THE HARD STUFF. LOL!


Again, I'm blessed with the best parents in America! However, I've seen ...

Come on TR - the answer is so obvious.

Rose-tinted stop-watches. They sell in several magazines (on the page opposite the rose-tinted radar guns). They sell for a mere $99.85 and are guaranteed to be 100% accurate (plus or minus one minute).

Aparent,

Man, you ruined it for me. Never could afford one of them radar guns. I am not a doctor.

Pulled out my dad gum stop watch, and sure enough, the lens was rose colored. Never even noticed..........

TR:

Let the former track guy answer this:

.15 for the digital stopwatch instead of the wind-up.

.15 for fully automatic timing.

.05 for the wind-resistant clothing the dummy forgot to wear.

.05 for the thick socks instead of the race stockings.

.1 for the wind of the day.

and .5 for the piano he's got on his back (otherwise known as daddy).

Just one message for coachB25
lay off the diet coke, it's a deadly drink that contains Aspartame.
http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html
I was drinking the stuff and soon started scratching my arms and leggs until they almost bled, went to several Drs and and was told to buy several different lotions and salves, still no relief, was talking to a nurse one day while buying some diet coke and she pointed out some of the side effects and recommended making a search on Aspartame.

B25,

EXACTLY! You hit the nail on the head. Sadly, there are MANY parents like that. You forgot one, 'the teachers are all no good because John John should have a 4.0'

Maybe we can start a coaches forum so that you guys can lump all of the parents together and continue to beat them over the head. How about a "Parents Suck" Forum right next to the "Coaches Suck" Forum. We can make Will the moderator so that he can tell us how it was back in the day!

For sake of discussion let’s talk about the flip side of this. What if parents looked at their kid and just saw an ordinary kid. What if you went to your child and said: “Johnny, the neighbor kid is faster, smarter, better looking, throws harder, hits farther and has a lot more to offer the world than you?” “Son, you have to be realistic, you will grow up to be just an average person.” No, we as parents shouldn’t do that. I think we as parents have to fan the embers of hope in our children. It is our job to instill confidence when none is obvious. To prop them up when we see them falling. During the potty training years I think we should even go so far as to give them a reward for a properly placed pile of doo doo. We aren’t harming these children. In time most young people will come to grip with who they are and what they are. They soon realize what a pile of doo doo is. It is called maturity. I guess we could accelerate maturity to a certain degree but imagine the harm we could do if we pushed too hard. We are basic animals and our parental instincts guide us to do the best thing for our children. Everything is fine until the parent places their child into society (like a baseball team). When this happens we have a sudden clash of reality and expectations. Kids have no problem with it. . . It’s the parents that can’t handle the change.
Fungo

Heck.....I always told my son to stop running, once the stopwatch got to 6.8, then you're not telling a lie.

Be good,
David

Fungo..."Fanning the embers of hope.....instilling confidence.....propping them up" are all things parents should do. But if we're telling them they're better than they actualy are we're deceiving them. We should be honest with our kids about their abilities and help them every way we can to get better, improve.
If we're telling other people our kids are better than they are we're setting them up for failure. We as parents need to worry less about what other people think about our kids and more about what our kids think of themselves.
Honesty is still the best policy. With our kids and with ourselves.

What is honesty? At 14 my son was a bench warmer. I believed in him. I encouraged him. You never know when someone will develop. Hope springs eternal. You don't want to be unrealistic and then not encourage hard work. I see potential of a player and never pidgeon hole him. JMO

Why not tell the parent he did better. that is what they want to hear and don't we want to keep them happy. Why be honest. It will only get you in trouble. Imagine a coach telling a player he is not as good as he thinks he or his parents thhinks he is. His self esteem would be shattered. God forbid he might take it as the "truth" and work to make himself better. Try teaching. When kids do not learn it is always something else that is preventing the kid from succeeding. Learning disability, school phobia, test anxiety.etc etc etc. A whole different world out there. and people buy into it.

BigHIt, I went overboard and, again, I want to make sure that everyone knows I Pro PARENTS! I HAVE BEEN BLESSED. HOWEVER, I HAVE ALSO HAD SOME OF THE WORSE! If I told you stories from this week, no one would believe them as far as how positive my parents are. If I told you of some of the confrontations, no one would believe them.

PARENTS LOVE THEIR CHILD. IT IS A GOOD THING.

It is a parents responsibilty to provide a "safe haven" to which our children can return to when all is wrong with the world...if a parent is consistently saying so and so is better than you I consider this to be a form of mental abuse...it does nothing to provide stimulas to get better at something...it only serves as a deterrent to the child into believing he or she will never succeed or never be good enough in the parents eyes...
Also, all this parent bashing is really unnecessary...if you are a coach and have one or two parents who are dissatisfied but all the rest are comfortable with you then it is the disgruntled parents problem...they are of the caliber of those who are never satisfied...but if a vast majority of the parents are not happy then it is time for the coach to remove the rose colored glasses and admit coaching is not for you and you are the problem