A holiday tradition for us. We will make about forty dozen today. No eating until Xmas Eve!
Posted via email from Potsie’s posterous
{ 0 comments }
A holiday tradition for us. We will make about forty dozen today. No eating until Xmas Eve!
Posted via email from Potsie’s posterous
{ 0 comments }
How does your Friday normally go?
Is work full of end of week reports/deadlines?
Is Friday a day to catch your breath & catch up on work that you have been meaning to finish?
Whatever drives your Friday, enjoy it, bust it, and enjoy the weekend.
Two weeks until Christmas…how far through your list are you?
{ 0 comments }
I installed WordPress 2.9-rare, the pre-alpha version of WordPress 2.9.
One of the features is the ability to easily embed remote content (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) into a post, doing nothing more than pasting the plain-text URL link in your post.
I simply pasted “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-0UhucJc8″ and the video is automatically embedded.
Slick.
{ 0 comments }
I posted the following on a parents list after another parent inquired about signing up her soon-to-be kindergartner for soccer. Soooo many parents worry about getting their kids signed up, having them try the sport out as toddlers, etc.
I repeat the stuff below often to other parents, so I figured I would post it here.
Any other parents who volunteer as youth soccer coaches? Share your thoughts/feelings in the comments.
——
Do not feel the need to push your kid if the child isn’t ready.
I would not recommend pre-school soccer if the goal is to see if your child likes the sport. The kids are just too young to grasp many concepts of such a complex game. Treating it as fun exercise is great, but I’ve seen too many parents have unrealistic expectations for such young kids.
I have coached youth soccer through Rec & Ed for six years now and hate seeing kids pushed too hard, at least in terms of “learning the game.” I am all for signing up kids so they can grow from being part of group, learning to work together, etc. but those things take time for kids to learn. ”Go score a goal” is the worst thing I hear from the sidelines and represents, IMO, parents wanting to see their children improve/excel at the sport. I understand those desires, but the pressures placed on kids are simply unrealistic.
I am all for giving our kids an opportunity to succeed on the field, but I firmly believe the larger life skills to come out of any athletic team at this age are:
- have fun
- what’s for snack after the game? (this really helps remind coaches and parents what’s important)
- do I have to play goalie again?
- respect for the coaches, teammates and opponents
- win with grace
- lose with dignity
- tie your shoes
I could go on and on…
Enjoy the chance to meet other families, wonder if you signed up for snack the morning of a game, and finding that other shin guard just before the game.
cheers,
Chris
(LadyBugs coach with the boxers to prove it!)
{ 0 comments }
Why go with desktop app for this blog?
- I want to blog more often and the WordPress admin interface just doesn’t get me fired up about writing.
- Gives me an excuse to install yet another piece of software, but now I need to force myself to use it and stick with it.
- Nobody reads this blog aside me from checking my edits, so what the heck.
- If you got this far, thanks for getting this far.
{ 0 comments }
Hmmmm…nothing from me since September. Ouch.
I’m not sure how to remedy this – my short attention span meshes quite nicely with Twitter.
Wait, distracted…must go finish something else not quite done…
{ 2 comments }
