My son is…

[Miggs]

We had planned on not letting our kids get cell phones until they can buy their own, but they basically have to have one in high school now.

Our compromise is that they get a flip phone after elementary school and get a smart phone in high school.

Why do they have to have one in hs?

 

[Miggs]

That's the skull crush variety in my example.
My question is, are the concussions suffered from a punch to the jaw pretty minor and meaningless? Because of those kinda of concussions are similar to the ones in football then how do MMA guys even walk around?
A football player gets a concussion and people talk about how their career could be over if they get a couple more (think tua)
MMA dudes get knocked out over and over and over again and nobody seems concerned.

Good question. I’m sure many do and exhibit screwed up behavior via street fights and domestic abuse or just doing flat out ******* crazy stuff.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Why do they have to have one in hs?

It's not a requirement, but so many kids have them, that it has become an expectation by most teachers that all of their kids have cell phones. They are asked to use them for different assignments and a lot of time communication is done via text or by apps.

 

[Sardines]

That's the skull crush variety in my example.
My question is, are the concussions suffered from a punch to the jaw pretty minor and meaningless? Because of those kinda of concussions are similar to the ones in football then how do MMA guys even walk around?
A football player gets a concussion and people talk about how their career could be over if they get a couple more (think tua)
MMA dudes get knocked out over and over and over again and nobody seems concerned.

Let's follow the lifespans of these MMA fighters. MMA is relatively new. Not a lot of MMA pros in their 60s yet.

 

[The Midnight]

Too much. We also do group soccer trainings on the side for all three of them…haha.

Listen, I’d rather this than staring at a tv or iPad all day.

But we’ll see. In two or three years, he’ll probably have to start to choose sports though I will try to avoid that and let him continue playing multiple every season. His coaches love him and because he’s really good in everything they want him on the teams…basketball is the only one where he’s regressed…I think that will change once I put a hoop up.

But in soccer he’s young since it’s by calendar year and he’s a December kid. And yet he’s probably the second best kid on the team and we’re very good. He also played up a year in the winter and was good.

He wrestled what I would call JV last year…meaning he was the 2nd best kid in our town at his weight class…the best kid is in 4th grade and was held back and should’ve been in 5th. He went 11-6. Solid but nothing special…but wrestling, like soccer, is so much technique and skill that takes years to master…so he’ll do a couple camps this summer…start the training at the school as well for 3-4 months leading into the winter season…so I’m curious how he does next year…

In lax, he was asked to play up with a few other kids this season. He did nicely. I think finished with four goals playing against 3rd and 4th graders many of whom were way bigger than him since he’s just 56 pounds. He crushed it when he played for his normal aged team.

In baseball, he’s learning and getting more comfortable. He struggled in his first three travel games going 0-6 with six strikeouts. Near tears. I told him it was good. That everything has come fairly easy to him and the struggle and suffering and working hard are needed steps…reached base his five plate appearance since. But it’s a work in progress. Getting the timing down with faster pitchers. And in the field what to do in certain situations. He’s started to watch it a lot more on tv which will help…but I think in a year or so, he’ll likely be very good.

I might buy a football helmet and pads and have him do some games in them with me this summer…just to get him used to wearing all the gear…a football helmet is noticeably heavier than a lax one imo.

And yeah, he joined our beach clubs swim team this summer lol. All three kids did.

Soccer’s the most sensible choice.. plus he’s already good at running… plus less chance of concussion..

No brainer.

 

[Schrödinger's Gerbil]

a Celtics fan. Nothing I can do. Started watching Celtics City with him on Max. It’s excellent.

I can’t win every battle. He’s an Eagles fan which is most important to me. And does great in school—was asked to skip 2nd grade. We said no. And is a very good athlete. I can’t be upset that he’s brighter than I realize and has chosen not to subject himself to suffering as a Jazz fan.

Don’t worry. I still made fun of them when they lost to the Knicks to his face. Tell him Tatum sucks.

Could be worse, my son is Manchester City fan. As a true, red Liverpool fan, it's almost enough to disown him.

 

[Miggs]

Soccer’s the most sensible choice.. plus he’s already good at running… plus less chance of concussion..

No brainer.

Soccer has the second most concussions after football. And his two concussions were from indoor soccer.

 

[infection]

Could be worse, my son is Manchester City fan. As a true, red Liverpool fan, it's almost enough to disown him.

This may seem off the wall, but right before I read your post I had seen a plane in the sky that originated in Manchester and is headed to Vegas. Every London to LAX flight passes over our house. But I have never seen a flight overhead from Manchester. Then I started resuming reading your post 2-3 seconds later.

Summer miracle. This is the kind of luck God bestows upon me to justify things like the Jazz moving to 5th. I’m not sure it’s a fair trade but I’ve got no choice.

 

[Schrödinger's Gerbil]

This may seem off the wall, but right before I read your post I had seen a plane in the sky that originated in Manchester and is headed to Vegas. Every London to LAX flight passes over our house. But I have never seen a flight overhead from Manchester. Then I started resuming reading your post 2-3 seconds later.

Summer miracle. This is the kind of luck God bestows upon me to justify things like the Jazz moving to 5th. I’m not sure it’s a fair trade but I’ve got no choice.

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LOL, it's got to mean something, right?

Years ago, my cellphone ringtone was the opening stanza of Take on Me by Ah-Ha (I'm an 80s New Wave fan, sue me, and Ah-Ha is a criminally underrated band--aside from this one iconic hit and video). On driving with my daughter to go skiing at Alta, just as we were entering Little Cottonwood Canyon, Take on Me started playing on the radio at the exact moment my phone rang. The radio and my phone played the opening stanza of Take on Me almost perfectly synchronized. What were the odds of this happening? Pretty remote, maybe 1-1,000,000, or thereabouts. (1-1,000,000 is not meant to be literal but a marker of order of magnitude.)

The lesson I learned that day is that 1-1,000,000 odds events happen, and given that the world is comprised of billions of people interacting in billions of ways each day with other people, media, nature, etc., 1-1,000,000 odds events almost certainly occur every day, thousands if not millions of times. Because we humans are wired to see patterns and possess a deep need to feel like we matter in the grand scheme of the cosmos, we tend to attach significance to these 1-1,000,000 events (frequently in the form of divine intervention) when in fact they are no more than common synchronistic coincidences.