Terrell Owens: Role model?

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by bustr
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.

  They come from various areas, with various backgrounds.
  Mostly white. In this case illegal immigration does not play a part.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by SirLoin

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

 I totaly agree. That was the point I made earlier concerning equating the NFL and the WWF.
  My kids are raised and on their own now. I was not a perfect Dad and my kids were not perfect. We both made mistakes. It`s the way of life.
  What I did do was do things that included them such as fishing, camping, hunting, trips, etc. In these settings I got more insight from my kids about how they felt about different things, their likes dislikes, etc.
  We had our probs , as everyone does, but at least we were able to communicate with each other.
  When my kids done something wrong, and they did, they knew they were doing something wrong. They were taught right from wrong.
  By taking the path to doing something wrong they also knew that they took the responsibility of the punishment that went along with it.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Jackal1
I totaly agree. That was the point I made earlier concerning equating the NFL and the WWF.
  My kids are raised and on their own now. I was not a perfect Dad and my kids were not perfect. We both made mistakes. It`s the way of life.
  What I did do was do things that included them such as fishing, camping, hunting, trips, etc. In these settings I got more insight from my kids about how they felt about different things, their likes dislikes, etc.
  We had our probs , as everyone does, but at least we were able to communicate with each other.
  When my kids done something wrong, and they did, they knew they were doing something wrong. They were taught right from wrong.
  By taking the path to doing something wrong they also knew that they took the responsibility of the punishment that went along with it.

So, judging from the topic of the post, you would have punished your children had they been involved personally in sports, and happened to like a particular professional athlete?

FWIW, I do all the above with my kids and more, including participating in sports with them (Coaching, etc.) however I would not want to control their likes and dislikes unless I deemed it a danger to them.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
So, judging from the topic of the post, you would have punished your children had they been involved personally in sports, and happened to like a particular professional athlete?
 

  I don`t know exactly where you got the idea I would punish my kids for being involved in sports. Like I said earlier about the NFL.......they are playing a KIDS game.
  My kids were involved in sports and did very well.
  If they liked a particular professional athlete I certainly had no problem with that. There is a lot of professional sports out there besides the circus called the NFL , beleive it or not.

FWIW, I do all the above with my kids and more, including participating in sports with them (Coaching, etc.) however I would not want to control their likes and dislikes unless I deemed it a danger to them.

   Nobody is going to control a kid`s likes and dislikes, no matter how much you try.
  You can only give and show them that there are many choices to choose from by example and involvment.
  Sounds to me like that is exactly what you are doing.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Jackal1
I don`t know exactly where you got the idea I would punish my kids for being involved in sports.

My question was actually two questions based on your first reply, "and happened to like a particular professional athlete?"

Originally posted by Jackal1
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'm not fond of the NFL for role models, there are rare cases where ones are found. Again, I have no control over their likes and dislikes. Overall, I think we agree though on our philosophical approaches to parenthood.

[Jackal1]

Awww I see. My bad.
Yea, I think we are on the same line.
Good luck BTW and enjoy them while you can. They are grown and gone before you know it.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Jackal1
Awww I see. My bad.
Yea, I think we are on the same line.
Good luck BTW and enjoy them while you can. They are grown and gone before you know it.

Thanks, I'm absorbing the moment with that in mind, and  capturing every moment on either stills or video.

[culero]

Originally posted by rpm
I have a bottle of Dom set aside for the day TO blows out his knee. Hopefully it's against the Cowboys and it happens on the star.

Roy came close last year, eh?

culero