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Question for all you Dads out there

Thought i'd start a different topic for a change

Here's a question for all you guys. How do you fellas feel about fathers who either push their sons into sports , or basically force their kids to root for the teams they root for ? Should we let them travel the course they want or should we nudge them a bit in directions we want them to go. Just curious how you guys handled or will handle your sons/daughters

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  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    She's only 2, but I don't now and don't intend to push my daughter into any activity. We just try to make available as many different activities as possible: art, music, sports, construction toys/blocks, and dolls and girlie stuff. She enjoys them all now, but I'm sure she'll eventually gravitate toward just one or two. And whatever she chooses will be fine with me. I am quite proud of the fact, though, that she seems to be acquiring my own devotion to the home teams.

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  • Gemmy10Gemmy10 Posts: 2,990
    I grew up a Yankee fan because my father was one. We rarely went to any games, maybe once every 3 years, but he loved the Yankees and disliked the Mets.

    A far as my children, we go to 4 or 5 Yankee games a year, so by default they have become Yankee fans, but we don't push them.

    My neighbor next door is a diehard Mets fan but his son is a Yankees fan.
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    first congrats, not even a Babe Ruth cut auto pull is better than your firstborn. I taught my boy to throw a ball
    at 14 months know he throws anything that looks like a ball regardless of weight or if it is made of glass or
    something!

    To tell you the truth, sports is farthest away from my mind when I am with my son. The exciting part is that
    he can be ANYTHING he wants to be. Ill back him 100% no matter what!

    Enjoy man, it only gets better from here on!

    Kevin

    You going to put away a 2004 topps set for him?
  • Gemmy10Gemmy10 Posts: 2,990
    joey, you have a son? Are you serious? You have never spoke about him here before. I am totally flabbergasted. I thought you were just a college lad going for you PhD? I guess you DO have responsibility after all. image
  • 1420sports1420sports Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭
    My son is 4 weeks old, but wears Eagles onesies ... just bought him a sweeet TO jersey onesie. He can decide on what teams to root for when he leaves the house.

    kidding ... I am not going to push sports on him. Or cards. He can root for any team at any time, just not this season!
    collecting various PSA and SGC cards
  • kuhlmannkuhlmann Posts: 3,326 ✭✭
    1420 cant wait till your boy says go cowboys as his first 2 words image
  • 1420sports1420sports Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭
    more like - DALLAS SUCKS! image
    collecting various PSA and SGC cards
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    I have 3 kids, ages 6,3,2 (boy, girl, girl respectively).

    Our son has always loved playing football. At times I have to hold him back to keep my sanity! He runs around the house lobbing the ball all over the place and diving and catching it, while yelling names such as Krenzel as he throws and then Michael Jenkins as he catches. He now tries to have his sisters tackle him. It's pretty comical. He used to LOVE the Buckeyes. In fact we even mailed the bum Craig Krenzel a letter and a pic from him of him in his jersey and never heard a thing. He was pretty disappointed by that. Maybe this would explain his abnormal fascination with Maize and Blue.

    He also enjoys baseball but not like football. I don't push him in fact he usually asks me to play catch with him. When we do that, his sisters manage to find gloves and bats and want to play as well.

    He also really loves fishing and we just had a pond built out back for them all to fish and swim when they are old enough.


    JoeStalin, that is probably the finest post I've ever seen you write.
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    That was a nice post Kevin.

    My son is almost 7- I try to expose him to everything and then let him chose. The only stipulation is that once he wants to start something he has to finish it- no letting down teammates by bailing midseason. He never has.
    So far he decided he didn't want to play basketball again, wasn't sure on soccer but went for a 2nd season, and is loving it, and can't wait for baseball to start again for the 3rd season.
    The only thing I sorta pushed him to is swim lessons, just because of the safety factor. He loves the water, so it didn't take much.
    Congrats on the birth- each day just gets better. Make it thru those first 3 months of no sleep and you're home free!

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • Great responses guys, thanks

    Kevin, thanks and your 2004 Topps set is a great idea

    My daughter is 4 and it's funny because so far she's combined the girlie stuff like playing with her dolls and the boy stuff like playing ball ( not bragging on my kid but you guys would be absolutely floored if you saw this girl swing a bat. Perfect stance and i actually pitch overhand with a wiffleball at a decent speed and she blasts the crap out of the ball. I know this is the live ball era but she's incredible lol )

    Kids are terrific but im just worried what this worlds going to be like when their older and when they have kids
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