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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I call them bros and bro-ettes.

“Cool” (in their minds) moms and dads who are obsessed with their kids playing sports who drink too much is the basic idea.  Selectively friendly.  Totally basic.

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And I don't understand how they get their kids to do what they want! There are all these three-kid families where all three kids are star athletes but the parents don't seem all that athletic. They dress the part but they're practically alcoholic (booze at every little league game and even practice) and not exactly fit. None of the kids are "quirky", untalented or uninterested. [/quote]

I think people like this tend to spawn people who are similarly incurious and unoriginal, so their young kids are just like "ok yes I'll put on this scratch plaid gingham shirt to match dad for family photos and then go to lacrosse practice, I don't have any other ideas for what to do."

But it's interesting because my kids are upper elementary and middle school now and one thing I have noticed is that these parents start freaking about academics a bit in late elementary. Their kids tend not to be super strong academically, in part because it is not emphasized at home (sports practice over reading, always). Also if the kid turns out to be just fine at sports (not bad, but not a super star) it becomes a problem because these kids have not been encouraged to explore other interests and the parents don't really know what those other interests would be (the concept of a child who is really into anime or cooking or art or some other offbeat, specific interest is totally foreign to them) so these kids flounder. The boys wind up obsessed with video games and getting duller by the minute, the girls become hyper-social and focused on makeup, clothes, and friend groups. In the 1980s this was the ticket to HS popularity and social success, but it's less true now, and I see some of the bro dad/wine mom scrambling trying to get their kids back on track academically and develop some kind of extra curricular since they are not going to make varsity anything.

You see the posts on hear that are like "what could my 10 year old possibly do?? He's okay at soccer but not great and I don't know what else to put him in??" There are a million things but these are simple people.[/quote]

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