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Offline Curval

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Leaving early today...my kid's first sports day
« on: May 02, 2003, 08:52:13 AM »
This will be a first for me.  I remember mine...kind of "Cat's in the Cradle" though....I was always the kid waiting in vain for my Dad to show up.  There was always a meeting, client matters to deal with etc. etc.

Not me though....

I'm taking the afternoon off and I will be doing the three-legged race and any other event the little guy wants to do.

Any other Dad's out there who have done this?

How do you sabotage the other contestants?...just curious...I plan on winning.  

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Leaving early today...my kid's first sports day
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2003, 08:56:04 AM »
One suggestion, if I may.

Just plan on doing what your son wants to do and having fun at that.

Enjoy!
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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2003, 09:06:13 AM »
You mean I shouldn't drill "Victory at any cost" into his impressionable young mind?  But...but...Tiger's dad did?

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I don't really plan on winning.  Just being there is gonna make him happy.
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Offline Syzygyone

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« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2003, 09:19:27 AM »
Well, Curval;
Having raised a young man to 21, and still raising a fifteen year old, know that IT GOES INCREDIBLY FAST.

Soon, you will no longer be heroic in their eyes.  :eek:   Soon, you will be the most stupid person ever born.  :eek:   Soon, you will be the meanest man ever to have lived.  :eek: Soon! Very soon!

So, go enjoy these days; relish every second; idet everything on your memory.  You will need it because I have discovered that God has given parents only twelve years to love their children, before the devil imposes teenage on us!   :eek: :eek: :eek:

Sigh, I am getting old and misty.  I love my children and do in fact relish all of the times I've spent with them.   Winning does not matter, or even trying to win.  It's that you are there.  They won't appreciate it until they are fathers too, but, you will have planted the right seed for them to be good fathers.
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