Just went to a parent university talk about bullying and how to be a better parent. It was put on by a gentleman with the last name Williams from Nashville. Thought I would share just a couple things on this because I did have tears in my eyes when I left tonight. The biggest thing I want to share is this. He said when we are busy as parents we might be lucky to spend 15 minutes a night with our kids. I agreed. We get home from wrestling practice 3 nights a week at 8:30. Out of that 15 minutes it says we spend 12 of those minutes telling them what they did wrong or complaining about something. 3 minutes used to give them praise. thats when the tears started coming down. I had to agree with him in all aspects. It made me think of coaching. I am guilty and know alot of you are guilty to. thoughout the practice and after matches how much time do we spend telling the kids what they should have done or what they did wrong rather than what they did right. I know there will some of you in here say is this the same idiot that was ramping on with matman and sportsfan about stupid crap. yes that was me. After my wife sat me down and showed me what kind of idiot I looked like on here I agreed to do nothing but positve things in this forum in the future. I hope some of you take this as a positive if not then thats your life. We just have to remember to let the kids be kids at some point and pushing them to the boiling point is not what we want later in life.


Scott Bockover