Yarrr It's Talk like a Pirate Day
Sep. 19th, 2006 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerYarrrr me Hardies. It be the 19th of September and ye must remember that it be talk like a Pirate Day. So ya scurvy dogs have a bucko day. (You should see how my grammar and spell checker looks on the previous sentences).
I got the larder restocked yesterday. First time since DragonCon I have had a chance to go through the fridge and the cupboards to see what we really needed. That was about all I really had energy for. Well that and my bowling league. My average is sinking faster than the Black Pearl. I had it above 100 but now it is below and seems in free fall. My teammates point out that a low average at the beginning of the season is not a bad thing. I just wish I could get it back up above 100.
This past weekend I had on a sports show that I listen to as I am getting my coffee and the kitchen ready to go for the day. I like this particular show because it addresses issues of children and sports from coach's attitudes towards the various sports and how it affects the kids on their teams. To parents who are there both good and bad. They talk to referees in the area and cover education and sports. Some of the stories would curl your hair but for each horror story they have positive one as well. Overall I thought the show was pretty even handed. On occasion they have authors promoting various books on the subjects and kids and sports.
There was a woman on who had written a book on girls and sports and the pressures on girls in sports. The title has escaped me but given what I heard I don't think I would be reading this book. Given what she said I have a feeling she was not that happy in high school and put social pressure at the top of her list of things to worry about. The premise was that all girls walk through their high school corridors in constant worry about how people are looking at them and which social group they belong to to the exclusion of all else. That the social outweighs everything else just rubs me the wrong way. It reminded me of the old "all the girl is looking for at college is a well educated husband who will earn lots of money" BS that was round not too long ago. She says that girls who participate in organized sports have all these additional pressures to fit into the social structure of the high school.
She also seemed very focused on looks and physical form. I think I just about threw something at the radio when she started on a diatribe about young women needing to smell nice to be accepted and the athlete needed to pay particular attention to this. She seemed the kind of woman that would come into home economics once a year to talk about how make-up can make you feel better about yourself. Thank goodness I took shop instead. According to this woman, the girls in our schools all have very low self esteem and need to be told how to feel good about themselves. Self esteem cannot be created by outside forces, it has to come from within and personally I think that girls and young women (along with boys and young men) have enough to deal with emotionally and physically (remember your awkward teen years?) that this sort of pseudo-psychology is really ill advised. The problem is that I know there were people listening to it who have concerns about their kids and this gave them something to latch onto as to why their kid is the way she is. If this is the way their kids are then they have bigger problems than how their daughter worries constantly about her social state in school all the time.
I am grateful for peaches.
I got the larder restocked yesterday. First time since DragonCon I have had a chance to go through the fridge and the cupboards to see what we really needed. That was about all I really had energy for. Well that and my bowling league. My average is sinking faster than the Black Pearl. I had it above 100 but now it is below and seems in free fall. My teammates point out that a low average at the beginning of the season is not a bad thing. I just wish I could get it back up above 100.
This past weekend I had on a sports show that I listen to as I am getting my coffee and the kitchen ready to go for the day. I like this particular show because it addresses issues of children and sports from coach's attitudes towards the various sports and how it affects the kids on their teams. To parents who are there both good and bad. They talk to referees in the area and cover education and sports. Some of the stories would curl your hair but for each horror story they have positive one as well. Overall I thought the show was pretty even handed. On occasion they have authors promoting various books on the subjects and kids and sports.
There was a woman on who had written a book on girls and sports and the pressures on girls in sports. The title has escaped me but given what I heard I don't think I would be reading this book. Given what she said I have a feeling she was not that happy in high school and put social pressure at the top of her list of things to worry about. The premise was that all girls walk through their high school corridors in constant worry about how people are looking at them and which social group they belong to to the exclusion of all else. That the social outweighs everything else just rubs me the wrong way. It reminded me of the old "all the girl is looking for at college is a well educated husband who will earn lots of money" BS that was round not too long ago. She says that girls who participate in organized sports have all these additional pressures to fit into the social structure of the high school.
She also seemed very focused on looks and physical form. I think I just about threw something at the radio when she started on a diatribe about young women needing to smell nice to be accepted and the athlete needed to pay particular attention to this. She seemed the kind of woman that would come into home economics once a year to talk about how make-up can make you feel better about yourself. Thank goodness I took shop instead. According to this woman, the girls in our schools all have very low self esteem and need to be told how to feel good about themselves. Self esteem cannot be created by outside forces, it has to come from within and personally I think that girls and young women (along with boys and young men) have enough to deal with emotionally and physically (remember your awkward teen years?) that this sort of pseudo-psychology is really ill advised. The problem is that I know there were people listening to it who have concerns about their kids and this gave them something to latch onto as to why their kid is the way she is. If this is the way their kids are then they have bigger problems than how their daughter worries constantly about her social state in school all the time.
I am grateful for peaches.
