Dad advice sharing thread.
-
@Hooroo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
He'll be deadly when he grows into him self as it's not easy getting young ones to bowl full and straight accurately. That with a bit of pace and he will be a handful
Last year and earlier this year he was actually bowling with a fair bit more pace but first couple of games this year he started trying to bowl too quick and throwing medium pace half trackers which are too easy to get on to. We've done a fair bit of net practice lately and hes been working on pitching it up as it so much harder for a batsmen to play unless they are confident enough to charge it and play a full toss which most kids aren't at that age.
-
@JK said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@JK said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Paekakboyz said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@JK has jnr given any indication of what he'd prefer?
Yeah he initially was keen to repeat U10 as bowling wont be as fast but he would also then need to deal with the shite bowling he encountered last year that sometime doesnt even land on the pitch!
Anyway, since I've posted it looks like the 3 other lads in his team from last year are all keen to play under 11 (well thats what the parents say) so looks like we are going for that. Club said would apply for a dispensation from Auckland Cricket for them to play U11s BUT the kids would need to be available for Under 10 reps if selected
Update....got that dispensation so the lad is playing up a grade in under 11s. 3rd game of the season and he picked up a hattick today and all of them were bowled. Slowest bowler in the team but pretty much always a Yorker or just short of and if you miss then he hits. Proud dad!!!
Edit - vid of hattrick ball
You can see how little he is vs some of the othersAwesome. Hope you snagged the match ball and made a trophy out of it.
-
I think this is best placed into this thread: Professor Jonathan Haidt explains three of the six causes of the emergence of a new moral culture of “safetyism,” and how these elements have contributed to the attitudes of current college students.
It's ~70mins long and the very, very short version is raise your kids to be anti-fragile. Let them play, fall, dust themselves off and grow.
-
Stuff you don't want to see on your kids school facebook. School on lock down.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117903743/police-presence-hamilton-school-in-lockdown
-
Resurrection....
Winter sports update - well the lad decided he didnt enjoy rugby last year and to give it a miss. Was going to play soccer with a few of his mates but coach said had too many players and no room for him. Could have played in another team but hes not huge on the game and just wanted a team sport with mates so we opted out.
Two weeks back the team was short so he filled in and scored 5 goals in a 7 nil win. Turns out they want him to join permanently now for the rest of the season! 11am games so not too bad. Plus it will mean that he probably no longer need to go and watch little miss 7's 9am netball games. Shes also doing hockey too on a monday night. Pretty funny to watch at that age.
-
@JK said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
Resurrection....
Winter sports update - well the lad decided he didnt enjoy rugby last year and to give it a miss. Was going to play soccer with a few of his mates but coach said had too many players and no room for him. Could have played in another team but hes not huge on the game and just wanted a team sport with mates so we opted out.
Two weeks back the team was short so he filled in and scored 5 goals in a 7 nil win. Turns out they want him to join permanently now for the rest of the season! 11am games so not too bad. Plus it will mean that he probably no longer need to go and watch little miss 7's 9am netball games. Shes also doing hockey too on a monday night. Pretty funny to watch at that age.
Both my boys are waiting til cricket season, apparently they’re having a ‘break’ from team sports although they swim twice a week, do big walks with me and the other half and I’m slowly getting them into calisthenics. All of that makes it easier to justify Blobbing in front of the PS4 and Switch !
-
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
-
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
He probably wishes there were things seen he could unsee....
I played soccer as a kid, old man forced me into it fucken hated it. Too boring, was always happy when games were washed out ( growing up in Wellington that was most Saturday’s)
-
TR Jnr is missing rugby this season (as I am missing coaching, didnt think I would!!)
He is only doing TKD this year, has a grading in a fortnight (will take him to brown belt) unsure if he will keep going or will have a break...
Miss TR, started hockey a few weeks back, new team, but seems to be enjoying being back out there!!
-
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
I wish he played rugby though...I have come to terms with Raz jr not playing rugby. At Keebra Park the rugby players are bigger than me. David Fifita and Payne Haas are the same sizes they were in their final year of schoolboy footy.
I remember being trampled by Dominic Feaunati at my sons age and effectively all the way to club rugby and league. He was enormous back then. And he's nowhere near as big as Haas or Fifita. So son number one can play basketball.
-
-
@Bones said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil aren't we about the same age? Maybe it was losing to the mighty Eastbourne that made you hate it.
Probably was, I was living in Upper Hutt as a kid, anyone south was an enemy. ( Lower Hutt, Perone etc)
-
@Bones said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil I spent many a spell in Wallaceville. That BMX track down by the river was the best in Welly too.
Loved the Hutt, lived there till I was 16. Parents owned a dairy, best years of my life growing up. Free junk food and the pretty fellow teenage girls working behind the counter with you while your mates looked on with envy
-
-
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
Poofter.
I blame the lack of male role model parent.
-
@booboo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
Poofter.
I blame the lack of male role model parent.
Apparently the kid was originally into rugby, then he busted into his dads bedroom one evening and now he's into soccer... Weird.
