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  1. 1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:

    i hope that they made the right decision re: the weather. i've got my entire family watching it

    The weather will either scrub it or allow it, it won't blow it up. 

    They just said the weather is trending in the wrong direction. After saying for the past 30 minutes that it was trending in the right direction.

  2. My son (10) and his buddy have taken enough of a recent interest in boxing that we sent them to an introductory boxing lesson this past weekend at a local gym. They each got ~60 minutes of a private lesson. The thought is to recruit 1 more buddy (to defray cost) and send them as a group of 3, once per week over the summer. 

    I haven't read the entire thread carefully. Does anyone here have kids training to box? If so, what age? Where do you train? What benefits do you see? Do your kids like it? Stick with it? We're in the Houston area and have started at Baby Bull Boxing. It seems like something my son might want to stick with, so I'm starting to nose around.

  3. 10 minutes ago, HOOK'EMHOOAH said:

    Im gonna just jump right off and ask why in the fuck is a governmental organization holding prayer to begin with?

    People gonna people. Stupid gonna stupid. Digress.

    Eric Hogue, city councilman of Wylie, Texas, has decried that women shall not lead the opening prayer of their meetings. He has cited the new testament of the bible as his reasoning for this.

     

    This speaks volumes about a lot of things. He may want his wife and daughters to never be able to speak or think for themselves, but ill be damned if I let that be the kind of life my daughter experiences.

    Got to love it when a guy takes a verse about something happening "in church" and applies to to "in this town hall room." Hogue is wrong here. Obviously. 

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  4. 4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    You guys going to be sharing helmets and catching gear?  Allowing high fives?

    We already don't share batting helmets. Use of catcher's gear will have to be addressed. No post-game high fives or handshake line. We'll probably only allow a certain number of kids in the dugout with the rest beside or behind, spaced out. Hand sanitizer available. A designated safety rep. Limited spectators, spaced out, masks encouraged. 

    Personally, I don't think much of that matters for the kids. They are going to run, sweat, and jump all over each other. 

  5. As a Board Member in our league, I'm in charge of the youth umpires and the scheduling for all ages. It's going to be a ton of work and a total cluster if we end up having a short season. So....a big part of me wants us to cancel.

    But, for the sake of the children, a part of me wants to play/coach.

  6. On 5/14/2020 at 11:15 AM, Nivek said:

    So the wife tells me I am too hard on our oldest boy. Son does what I tell him to do. Later on, the wife complains that the boy wont listen to her and asks for help.

    Next day, wife complains how my methods are jut not right even if they are effective. Today she complains that the boy wont listen to her again and asks for help.

    "A friend of mine" can relate to this. 

  7. Our sports association is still hoping to play a condensed season if the powers that be let us back on the fields. 

    Our select team is definitely playing as soon as tournaments open up. We got an email from USSSA saying they were planning on holding their Memorial Day weekend tournament. If that's the case, our team will be there. 

    Anyone else hoping to play in their local league or select ball?

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  8. 9 hours ago, zork said:

    BTW, the Duke TIP program allows your eligible kid to take the PSAT on a practice basis which is likely what the OP was referring to since his kid is/was in the 5th grade when he took it.

    Here is a way to see if your kid has the eligible test scores to be in the Duke TIP program(if your school counselor/GT teacher hasn't checked for you):

    Fourth through sixth grade tests for eligibility, sort by state, (notice even scores from previous years work which I realized today since scores from 3rd grade last year work for 4th grade this year(no STAAR test this year)) :

    https://tip.duke.edu/lookups/?lt=ts4-qt

    The program extends beyond the 6th grade.  I checked the 7th grade requirements here:

    https://tip.duke.edu/lookups/?lt=ts7-qt

     

    Getting the experience taking tests can be good and bad I would think.  If you beat them up on a poor score it could be bad.  Look for positives and expand their experiences on those type of tests could be very helpful by the time they take it/them for real.

     

    I participated in the TIP program in middle school. As I recall, it was math focused. We didn't get any extra instruction on the verbal stuff. All math. Our little group all scored really well in math from then on. /csb

  9. 17 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Coach is starting practice this week with split squad to keep under the groups of 10 rule. 
    this puts us in an awkward position of possibly holding our kid back from probably his favorite activity. 

    Why would you not let him practice?

     

    Our dads group text message for my son's select team got really restless this morning. Trying to plan a practice. The problem is we normally rent field space from our local league. Those fields are on school district property, so they are closed. Now, local dads are taking their kids up to these fields all the time, but rarely more than 1 or 2 at a time and holding team practices is forbidden. Our coach is trying to lean on the program director since this wouldn't be a league team practicing together, it would be a select team. We could keep 4 kids in the cages, 4 on the infield, and 3 in the outfield, or something to keep our spacing....

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