chad
if your dad up and leaves you with no explanation when you are 26 months old and your sister is 6 months old and your mom is 300 months old then you are probably up against it from the outset even if you’re better off without him.
if your mom spends the last 8 years working two jobs and shuttling you and your sister to day care and karate and baseball and soccer you may not see the sacrifice that she has and will make but i’m pretty sure that in some small way you do for you are smart for an almost third grader.
if your baseball coach asks you if you’d also like to play football it’s not because he needs you and your size but rather because you need him and his example because he sees the exemplary job that your mom is doing and knows that he can assist. mom and grandma (and even little sister) love you so much and are the best role models that you could ever ask for but mom knows that you are missing something and agreed to let you put on the helmet and pads.
we started hitting on saturday and you didn’t like at all it but mom (and for whatever it’s worth your coach) knows that you need to stay and that the talk of quitting needs to stop and that coach won’t let you get hurt and that you will be an even stronger kid at the end of the season that you were coming in and strength comes from the head and the heart and not from the biceps and triceps and we are not here to win we are here to lead.
that said i know that as i walk on the turf in two hours it will be the most important time that i’ve spent on a field in the last 15 years because although it’s not fair that a little boy has to be the man of the house in this case it’s reality.
if your mom spends the last 8 years working two jobs and shuttling you and your sister to day care and karate and baseball and soccer you may not see the sacrifice that she has and will make but i’m pretty sure that in some small way you do for you are smart for an almost third grader.
if your baseball coach asks you if you’d also like to play football it’s not because he needs you and your size but rather because you need him and his example because he sees the exemplary job that your mom is doing and knows that he can assist. mom and grandma (and even little sister) love you so much and are the best role models that you could ever ask for but mom knows that you are missing something and agreed to let you put on the helmet and pads.
we started hitting on saturday and you didn’t like at all it but mom (and for whatever it’s worth your coach) knows that you need to stay and that the talk of quitting needs to stop and that coach won’t let you get hurt and that you will be an even stronger kid at the end of the season that you were coming in and strength comes from the head and the heart and not from the biceps and triceps and we are not here to win we are here to lead.
that said i know that as i walk on the turf in two hours it will be the most important time that i’ve spent on a field in the last 15 years because although it’s not fair that a little boy has to be the man of the house in this case it’s reality.
posted by Hotwire at 4:59 PM
7 Comments:
chad's going to have a life that's worth something interesting...
chad sounds like he is going to be well rounded and decent person..there are sadly too few of these.
Men like this coach are so valuable to single moms. I just got remarried a month ago, and am very blessed to have found a man who is very willing to step in and be as much of a "dad" as each of my kids requires. Before I met him, I relied on men like this coach to stand in the gap.
Thanks, coach.
patti - he is one of the greatest kids i've ever met.
march - he already is! he plays on the offensive line and all he wants to do is protect the QB (which is good because the QB is my son...)
charmcitygirl - a caching buddy of mine always says 'sometimes the boys need us more that we need the boys'. being from bawlmer are you familiar with the book 'season of life'?
What a fantastic post!!!
Thanks for stopping by my spot.
You're a good man, Charlie Brown... :)
And I'm glad to see you're giving lessons to others..
The Arrow And The Song
(1)
I shot an arrow in the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where; ；
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
(2)
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
(3)
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end, ，
I found again in the heart of a friend. 。
-----by aoc power leveling
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