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On Jun 20, 6:50 am, alan_atwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Where are the parents? Good question; I don't see many of them
> anymore. There's lot of people masquerating as parents, but people
> that actually raise their children in a responsible manner are few and
> far between nowadays.
I like your style Alan - hope you hang around here.
> Any person with a head on their shoulders would
> tell their kids at a very early age that drugs are bad, and reinforce
> that fact if the child is experimenting with them. But too many
> "parents" nowadays depend on others (i.e. day care and baby sitters)
> to raise their kids while they continue their professional careers or
> do anything else that requires them to be away from the family. Think
> a nanny's going to tell the kid not to take drugs; yeah right.
When I was racing with my daughters one thing that struck me was that
there were parents (well, relatives) who were teaching their kids how
to use dope. And plenty of others who were berating 14 year olds
because they couldn't win the sprint!
> AC is right; kids should do whatever they want and have fun -- that's
> the way I handled it when I had a significant amount of junior bicycle
> racers a number of years ago. Some of them aren't racing anymore,
> others have gone to world championships -- but they all enjoyed their
> experiences and they all know that winning isn't everything. And for
> the majority of them I didn't have to teach them that; their parents
> did that job already, as they should have.
It's hardest of all to keep girls interested in racing. Boys look up
to other boys who are athletes but girls ostracize athletic girls
quite a bit. That requires parents to stay on top of the situation
because kids are likely to take performance enhancing drugs but for
several different reasons.
> Where are the parents? Good question; I don't see many of them
> anymore. There's lot of people masquerating as parents, but people
> that actually raise their children in a responsible manner are few and
> far between nowadays.
I like your style Alan - hope you hang around here.
> Any person with a head on their shoulders would
> tell their kids at a very early age that drugs are bad, and reinforce
> that fact if the child is experimenting with them. But too many
> "parents" nowadays depend on others (i.e. day care and baby sitters)
> to raise their kids while they continue their professional careers or
> do anything else that requires them to be away from the family. Think
> a nanny's going to tell the kid not to take drugs; yeah right.
When I was racing with my daughters one thing that struck me was that
there were parents (well, relatives) who were teaching their kids how
to use dope. And plenty of others who were berating 14 year olds
because they couldn't win the sprint!
> AC is right; kids should do whatever they want and have fun -- that's
> the way I handled it when I had a significant amount of junior bicycle
> racers a number of years ago. Some of them aren't racing anymore,
> others have gone to world championships -- but they all enjoyed their
> experiences and they all know that winning isn't everything. And for
> the majority of them I didn't have to teach them that; their parents
> did that job already, as they should have.
It's hardest of all to keep girls interested in racing. Boys look up
to other boys who are athletes but girls ostracize athletic girls
quite a bit. That requires parents to stay on top of the situation
because kids are likely to take performance enhancing drugs but for
several different reasons.
