Parent Information
and ReliefThe purpose of this area is to provide swimmer's parents with useful information and tools:
Sept 26/02 Article:
"Are you a pressure parent?"
Sept 22/02 Article: "Dumbing Down our Kids"
... general insight for teens
Parents Only!
no swimmer's allowed!
The following survey has taken from the Amateur Swimming Association of Great Britain. If you answer "yes" to one or more of these questions, you may be in danger of pressuring your child. It is important to remember that the parents’ role is critical and should be supportive at all times to ensure a positive experience for your child.
Do you want your child to win more than he/she does?
Do you show your disappointment if he/she has a poor result?
Do you feel that you have to "psych" your child up before competition?
Do you feel that your child can enjoy the sport only if he/she wins?
Do you feel that you have to force your child to go to training?
Do you find yourself wanting to interfere during training or competition, thinking tat you could do better?
Do you find yourself disliking your child’s opponents?
Are your child’s goals more important to you than they are to your child?
Do you provide material rewards for performance?
Yours in Swimming ........ Sergei.
This
is an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator
Charles Sykes. You may have heard it attributed to Bill Gates, but that was only
an eRumour.....share it with your kids.
RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.
RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to
accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You
won't be a vice president with car phone, until you earn
both.
RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't
have tenure.
RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different
word for burger flipping
they called it Opportunity.
RULE 6
If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your
mistakes, learn from them.
RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got
that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening
to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your
own room.
RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give
you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear
the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few
employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own
time.
RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the
coffee shop and go to jobs.
RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
And here's three more found elsewhere that he didn't write...
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.
For
parents only....
Swimmers not allowed, please go away. We're watching you!
Middle age is when broadness of the mind
and narrowness of the waist change places.
Section 129767: Really Stupid Jokes 
with
no apologies..
A man asked
his doctor if he thought he'd live to be a hundred. The doctor asked the
man, "Do you smoke or drink?"Men who
have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and have bought jewelry.
A barber gave a haircut to a priest one day. The priest tried to pay for the
haircut but the barber refused saying, "I cannot accept money from you,
for you are a good man - you do God's work." The next morning the
barber found a dozen bibles at the door to his shop.
A Saudi Grand
Prince visiting the US for the first time was being wined and dined by the
State Department. The Grand Prince was unused to the salt in American foods,
and was constantly sending his man-servant Abdul to fetch him a glass of
water.
Time and again, Abdul would scamper off and return with a glass full of
water. But then, after many trips, Adbul returned empty-handed. This
displeased the Grand Prince greatly. "Abdul, you son of an ugly
camel", he yelled, "Where is my water?!"
"A thousand pardons, O Illustrious One," stammered the wretched
Abdul, "But someone is sitting on the well."
Two men were
playing a round of golf one day. Just as they were about to start one of the
holes, a funeral procession went by on the road beside the course. One of the
golfers, Clyde, takes off his cap and stands with his cap to his chest, and
waits for the entire procession to go by. He then puts his cap back on and
proceeds to tee off.
"Gee Clyde, that was a very nice gesture on your part. It was very thoughtful and respectful of you to do that," his friend said.
"Well," Clyde replied, "I was married to her for 30 years, it was the least that I could do."
A
first grade teacher explains to her class that she's a Mets fan. She asks her
students to raise their hands if they're Mets fans, too. To impress the teacher,
all the students launch their hands into the air. There is, however, one
exception: A girl named Lucy doesn't go along with the crowd.
The teacher asks her why she's decided to be different. "Because I'm not a
Mets fan," Lucy says.
"Then what are you?" asks the teacher.
"I'm a Yankees fan," boasts the little girl. The teacher is a little
perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Lucy why she's a Yankees fan.
"Well, my mom and dad are Yankees fans, so I'm a Yankees fan, too."
The teacher is now very angry. "That's no reason!" she says loudly.
"What if your mom was a moron, and your dad was a moron. What would you be
then?"
Lucy pauses, then smiles. "Why, then I'd be a Mets fan!"
Aquatic Humour
(Taken from an article in the CALIFORNIA EXAMINER, March 20,1998)
Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with a dive tank, flippers, and facemask. A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from burns but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification.
Investigators then set about determining how a fully clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that, on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast - some 20 miles away from the forest. The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets. The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire and emptied. You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300 feet in the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
STILL THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY? THINK AGAIN.