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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most boring subject ever:  parents talking about their kid's performance in some rando weekend club soccer tournament. Worse than grown men describing their recent golf game stroke by stroke.

Hope your kid play soccer in college, if so I will be happy to listen to stories about the college team. In the meantime, do you have any kids that are artistic?  Have the kids read any good books lately? [/quote]
There are plenty of athletes who are artistic and literate. They are not mutually exclusive qualities. IMO, I think sports and arts are both essential and apparently many other parents think so as well. [/quote]

Good.  If your club soccer-playing kid is active in the arts please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD only talk about their artistic accomplishments.

A non-exclusive list of topics I prefer to listen to rather than hearing parents drone on about their child's club soccer team:

1.  Progress of their home renovations;
2.  Their recent dental work;
3.  Their successes or challenges at house-training the new pet;
4.  Their new hot yoga class (if female) or cross-fit class (if male);
5.  Their theories on why their IT band is hurting;
6.  Their views on the proposed new development in their neighborhood;
7.  Their brilliant acquisition of a new purse at a bargain price;
8.  How having their golf clubs re-gripped has worked out for them;
9.  Their views on how much homework is appropriate for their child* (*only if club soccer tournaments are not mentioned as a reason child is anxious about work).

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If you are going to pile on the snark to mask your insecurities, at least be more clever about it.  Fact is, sports success portends life success.  Wrap up that sports success over academic, artistic and other success and you have a real leader.  [/quote]

In other words, your nerdy non-athletic kid will always be, well, nerdy.  Maybe a doctor or a lawyer or otherwise reasonably successful one day.  But still a nerd.  You need the confidence, leadership and everything else that goes with athletic success to be a true leader in life.[/quote]

Nice modeling.   Were you trying to channel the Alpha Beta frat bros in "Revenge of the Nerds?"  Apparently your own experience in sports did not include respect for others?   What an unpleasant attitude you have -- defensive and mean is not a winning combination.

(And no, I'm not a sports hater or a "nerd" –-  four years of a Division I sport.)[/quote]

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