Posts with the ‘Youth Sports’ tag
I love sports. I love youth sports. I love what sports teaches kids. Unfortunately, youth sports can also be a place where young athletes are exposed to the wrong lessons in life. A previous post on this page even addresses another aspect of youth sports: trophies. But a new phenomenon in youth sports makes me […]
The Dad’s Against Not Keeping Score Society of Iowa Board of Directors met monthly. Since the local chapter of the DANKS started, little progress had been made. There had been a lot of meetings held but not a lot of decisions made. The Chairman of the Board was Dan Slakovski. He ran one of the […]
Below is the You Tube video to David McCullough Jr.’s speech to the graduating Class of 2012 at Wellesley High School. This is an in your face yet inspiring speech to the coming generation. The Bottom Line: His last words to them are about being selfless. Being selfless is truly the most likely way any […]
You see, if everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. In our unspoken but not so subtle Darwinian competition with one another–which springs, I think, from our fear of our own insignificance, a subset of our dread of mortality — we have of late, we Americans, to […]
I spend a lot of time in the bleachers at my kids sporting events. I love it. I am a gym rat who loves to watch both practice and games. It is one of my favorite things from my childhood that I did with my dad, The Master of The Sword at West Point. Sometimes […]
I really don’t care what I hear on the news. We do not have an issue with self-esteem in America. My proof? The American Idol auditions! The fact that some of these people can gripe, scream and even cry on national television because Steven Tyler (Aerosmith: My favorite band!) told them they were not ready […]
