I snorted at the fork stuff. No one did it in my family (to my knowledge) but we were all in racquet sports and have freakish shoulder mobility. Weird flex.
Reading this at 5am, I stifled a lol and hurt my trachea. Might I suggest adding to your bedside paraphernalia a hospital pee bottle? You can get some designer ones that are almost sculptural. A sort of Bauhaus horn of cornucopia.
Also my dad was a fork back-scratcher. This story triggered upsetting memories of him diving into the cutlery drawer for relief then just putting it back, horrifying anyone unfortunate enough to witness it. Which fork did you use? Remove it immediately! Wash it! We don’t want your back germs, Dad! We know you can’t reach it (as evidenced by needing a fork) so it CANT BE CLEAN!’
Somehow I feel much better knowing your dad is a forker. Also these conversations happen at our place quite a bit. I get back scratchers most Father’s Days.
From being involved with Junior footy for the past 9 years I can confirm what your daughter’s coach said. I have seen the shouting coaches and really if their team does well it’s not because of the coaching. I’ve seen coaches try to rev up teams of 8 year olds using dimly remembered phrases from similar rev ups that are so anachronistic that the kids have no idea what they even mean.
But I’ve also seen coaches that use the opportunity to actually coach - at quarter time they calmly explain how to handle a particular situation. Or remind the players of the conditions and how to respond to them. Or ask everyone to congratulate a player for doing something well - and hopefully inspiring the players to try to do that same thing.
Junior sport should be fun - screaming coaches are not fun, and are not having any fun themselves.
Yes, I can only imagine. There’s probably a problem in that many coaches don’t get proper training, especially the parent coaches of younger teams. But I do know that this is changing. The AFL coaching program I did…checks notes… about 18 years ago covered all this quite well. Also other codes are doing a lot to improve it.
I snorted at the fork stuff. No one did it in my family (to my knowledge) but we were all in racquet sports and have freakish shoulder mobility. Weird flex.
Yes, a running backwards smash is exactly the flex needed. I’d say badminton players would have the least itchiest backs in sports.
Reading this at 5am, I stifled a lol and hurt my trachea. Might I suggest adding to your bedside paraphernalia a hospital pee bottle? You can get some designer ones that are almost sculptural. A sort of Bauhaus horn of cornucopia.
Also my dad was a fork back-scratcher. This story triggered upsetting memories of him diving into the cutlery drawer for relief then just putting it back, horrifying anyone unfortunate enough to witness it. Which fork did you use? Remove it immediately! Wash it! We don’t want your back germs, Dad! We know you can’t reach it (as evidenced by needing a fork) so it CANT BE CLEAN!’
Somehow I feel much better knowing your dad is a forker. Also these conversations happen at our place quite a bit. I get back scratchers most Father’s Days.
Unknown origin of chicken salt.
That made me laugh and knock about 5 things off my bedside table 😂
We live dangerously. Stay safe!!
From being involved with Junior footy for the past 9 years I can confirm what your daughter’s coach said. I have seen the shouting coaches and really if their team does well it’s not because of the coaching. I’ve seen coaches try to rev up teams of 8 year olds using dimly remembered phrases from similar rev ups that are so anachronistic that the kids have no idea what they even mean.
But I’ve also seen coaches that use the opportunity to actually coach - at quarter time they calmly explain how to handle a particular situation. Or remind the players of the conditions and how to respond to them. Or ask everyone to congratulate a player for doing something well - and hopefully inspiring the players to try to do that same thing.
Junior sport should be fun - screaming coaches are not fun, and are not having any fun themselves.
Yes, I can only imagine. There’s probably a problem in that many coaches don’t get proper training, especially the parent coaches of younger teams. But I do know that this is changing. The AFL coaching program I did…checks notes… about 18 years ago covered all this quite well. Also other codes are doing a lot to improve it.