If you didn’t grow up doing expensive travel sports, you probably underestimate how much it sets families back. The average extracurricular activity is a couple of hundred dollars a semester. Sure, spending $300 so your kid can play a puppy in 101 Dalmatians The Musical might sound like an exorbitant price to some families, but …
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Mom stands with her 5-year-old son in arms in front of seated hockey fans, blocking the game from view: ‘I said, “Excuse me, can you please sit down?” And was met with a look of disgust and bewilderment.’
If there’s one thing I hate, it’s mezzanine leaners. If you are seated in the less-than-ideal mezzanine of a theater or an arena, it is best practice not to lean forward so you can get a better view of the action. If you do so, you will block the view of the people sitting behind …
Seguir leyendo Mom stands with her 5-year-old son in arms in front of seated hockey fans, blocking the game from view: ‘I said, “Excuse me, can you please sit down?” And was met with a look of disgust and bewilderment.’
23 Swimming Memes for Folks Spending All Summer Smelling Like Chlorine
There’s nothing quite like the nostalgia of summer swimming as a kid. You didn’t need a beach vacation or a fancy resort, you just needed a neighbor with a decent-sized pool and a cooler full of juice boxes. Bonus points if they had one of those floaties shaped like a giant turtle or a pool …
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Dad withdraws 15-year-old daughter from competitive gymnastics against her mom’s wishes because she doesn’t want to be in the gym 14 hours a week and her body hurts: ‘She thinks my daughter will be become lazy and want to hang out with friends’
There’s nothing worse than not being able to quit something that you strongly dislike doing. There’s undoubtedly a chasm between quitting things the second you start to dislike them and forcing yourself to finish everything you complete, no matter how miserable it makes you. When I was in 5th grade, I wanted to quit my …
Seguir leyendo Dad withdraws 15-year-old daughter from competitive gymnastics against her mom’s wishes because she doesn’t want to be in the gym 14 hours a week and her body hurts: ‘She thinks my daughter will be become lazy and want to hang out with friends’
Father refuses to force his 11-year-old son to play a sport against his wife’s wishes, stops funding son’s lessons to do what’s best for his kid: ‘He was sad’
Let’s face it… Not everyone is the sporty kind of person. Some might even be athletic but simply hate playing certain sports for no reason other than the fact that they don’t like it. Parenting rule number one is not to make your child do all of the things you wish you did when you were …
Seguir leyendo Father refuses to force his 11-year-old son to play a sport against his wife’s wishes, stops funding son’s lessons to do what’s best for his kid: ‘He was sad’
20+ Best Super Bowl LIX Memes and Tweets That Are Probably Funnier Than This Year’s Commercial Breaks
Super Bowl 59 has come to a close with the Eagles winning by 18 points. If you’re not much of a sports fan but watch because you have a severe case of FOMO, you’re not alone. The KC Chiefs have recruited Swifties on top of the already-large Chiefs fan base—so Eagles fans might have felt …
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21 Very Philly Tweets and Memes That Cheer ‘Go Birds!’ for Eagles Fans Watching Super Bowl LIX
If you’re a Chiefs fan, then, I’m sorry, you have come to the wrong place. This is a list of funny tweets and memes that only true Eagles fans will love and relate to—even some Swifties are choosing to shout, «GO BIRDS!» (Which is surprising, in case you live under a rock and don’t know, …
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‘The SEC is undefeated in hypothetical matchups’: Why bitter college football fans prefer the results of imaginary games to facing the reality that their team is no longer on top
If you’re a sports fan, you’ve dabbled in pondering hypotheticals surrounding the possible outcome of games. Countless games in the history of sport could’ve ended completely differently if only one referee call went in the other direction—or if the wide receiver had managed to hang onto that 4th down pass during the final drive of …
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Cruel swimming coach mocks 16-year-old swimmer for being slow after 2 month break following his fathers passing: ‘It’s a pity your dad couldn’t have [passed] a little later to save you from this practice’
We all had that one teacher or coach who was randomly cruel to us for no reason. I will never forget my nefarious middle school P.E. teacher, Coach Wallace. For the first six weeks of the school year, he seemed to be just fine, but things took a turn for the worse when I got …
Seguir leyendo Cruel swimming coach mocks 16-year-old swimmer for being slow after 2 month break following his fathers passing: ‘It’s a pity your dad couldn’t have [passed] a little later to save you from this practice’
Reckless skiier slams into 11-year-old boy on beginner skiing trail, yells at his dad when he reports him to Ski Patrol: ‘He immediately started cursing me out and calling me a horrible dad’
Picture this. You’re at the local ice skating rink with your family. Your skill levels range from mostly competent to downright embarrassing, but you’re still having a good time going around and around in a circle. Suddenly, a young lady who is clearly a figure skater steps onto the ice and does her thing. How …
Seguir leyendo Reckless skiier slams into 11-year-old boy on beginner skiing trail, yells at his dad when he reports him to Ski Patrol: ‘He immediately started cursing me out and calling me a horrible dad’