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Offline FiLtH

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« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2005, 11:56:31 PM »
I dont put much stock in athletes. How many of us can go through High School...be given an education because of your sports skills, continue on through to the pros, given tons of money and all the trappings, all while doing the thing you like best out of life for a job.

   Id focus more on the doctor, the contractor competing in a dog eat dog world, feeding his kids but working his butt off. The teacher(good ones) and the soldiers who protect us abroad, the police and firemen who protect us near.
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« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2005, 12:09:16 AM »
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pro sports a role model?

might as well make the hollyweird stars role models for your kids... they live in about the same reality as the millionaire pro sport "ath-eilte"

is he goes from a private jet to a stretch hummer - best not to make him a "role" model - you are setting your kid up to fail in so many ways...

I agree with Eagler.  Oh man, I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.  Nothing good can come of this. :(
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« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2005, 12:50:12 AM »
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how can he get a tan:confused:


I could tell a really really funny but 100% true story along  similar lines.

Unfortunately the only way I could word it wouldnt be allowed here
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« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2005, 12:55:35 AM »
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Some children, but I think it's not the majority. Most find their role models at home, at school, on the field... they don't look for them on television.

Hell... I'd bet that if you went to the local highschool or junior high and did a poll asking if students could identify Terrell Owens or Bam Margera most would correctly identify Bam.


Perhaps not the majority but certainly an awful lot.
Thing is they look at atheletes,rap/hiphop stars  and other people as heros. Alot of kids see these people acting linke animals and they start thinking its cool to act that way. So in that sense they are certainly role models.
Look at the way alot of kids act these days. True. not all and maybe not the majority. But an awful lot act as they see these people act.
Which is simply Awful
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« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2005, 01:40:48 AM »
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I could tell a really really funny but 100% true story along  similar lines.

Unfortunately the only way I could word it wouldnt be allowed here



Type it up and PM it to me.
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« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2005, 10:27:21 AM »
In reply to the original question: If I had a son that hero worshipped ANYONE to do with the NFL, it would be a quick trip to the woodshed for a little reeducation session.
  I don`t think it has so much to do with the kids picking up on this by themselves as it is the Dad`s who are armchair quarterbacks and let their lives basicaly revolve around a bunch of overpaid, useless individuals playing a kid`s game for millions a year. Kids sees this. If it excites ole Dad so much , then it`s good enough for me type deal.
  I equate the NFL with WWF. A big circus act for millions.
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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2005, 10:55:24 AM »
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In reply to the original question: If I had a son that hero worshipped ANYONE to do with the NFL, it would be a quick trip to the woodshed for a little reeducation session.
  I don`t think it has so much to do with the kids picking up on this by themselves as it is the Dad`s who are armchair quarterbacks and let their lives basicaly revolve around a bunch of overpaid, useless individuals playing a kid`s game for millions a year. Kids sees this. If it excites ole Dad so much , then it`s good enough for me type deal.
  I equate the NFL with WWF. A big circus act for millions.

My philosophy is not to TELL the kids what to do, I'm here to GUIDE them, and hope they make the best decisions based on my guidence.  Woodsheds are not the way to get the results that I want for my children.

In our case, it was Madden 2004, 2005.  We tried to discourage his request to play football, even tried to scare him alittle with possible injuries,...didn't matter. He wanted to play. But not solely because of the computer game, but because of his personality...he's an alpha-male type personality. Loves rough play, and now he doesn't get in trouble for knocking another kid down. ;)
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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2005, 05:55:12 PM »
To each his own I guess, but IMHO we are seeing the results of the PC, hands off, time out raised brats now and it`s not pretty.
  I`ve been dealing with some of them on a nightly basis. Viscious, dangerous, theiving creatures with no respect for anyone, laws or property.
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« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2005, 06:09:15 PM »
So what would you do about these "PC, hands off, time out raised brats"?
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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2005, 06:18:56 PM »
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So what would you do about these "PC, hands off, time out raised brats"?


Come now... everyone knows that kids were better behaved and there was less crime back in the good ole days when we were free to beat our kids into submission.


It's NOSTALGIA! Kids aren't any more defiant today than before. The difference is there's just more of them today and we are much more proficient at passing along all the bad news. IMHO, the "bad apples" per capita is unchanged.
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« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2005, 06:23:38 PM »
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Come now... everyone knows that kids were better behaved and there was less crime back in the good ole days when we were free to beat our kids into submission.


I work with quite a few kids who's parents still do that and they are the ones with most problems and who cause most problems for those around them!!!

(As an aside how come when I click quote the above happens unlike the neater versions you other guys are getting?)
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« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2005, 06:24:31 PM »
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I work with quite a few kids who's parents still do that and they are the ones with most problems and who cause most problems for those around them!!! [/B]


Imagine my complete and total lack of surprise. ;)
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« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2005, 06:36:45 PM »
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Imagine my complete and total lack of surprise. ;)


yeah it works! Worked out the quote thing at long last  :lol

I know Sandman. Sad when you see the effects for the kids and those living on the same estates as them, every day though.:(
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« Reply #28 on: August 18, 2005, 07:40:02 PM »
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To each his own I guess, but IMHO we are seeing the results of the PC, hands off, time out raised brats now and it`s not pretty.
  I`ve been dealing with some of them on a nightly basis. Viscious, dangerous, theiving creatures with no respect for anyone, laws or property.


Jackel,

What is the environment of the nightly basis and what is the demographic back ground of your viscious citizens? I suspect illegal immigration is about to displace the historical and environmental conditions for your groups visciousness.
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« Reply #29 on: August 19, 2005, 08:35:17 AM »
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  I equate the NFL with WWF. A big circus act for millions.


Well at least the NFL is trying to clean up the sport from steroids...Can you imagine senate hearings for "Professional Wrestling?"...eek:

If your kid idolizes some WWF freak...it would say to me I(Daddy) am not role model enough for him..
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