Sentences with phrase «think soccer parents»

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As for the parent activity angle, who do you think is chasing down all those soccer balls?

There's the parent bringing birthday treats to school; the well meaning teacher who bought tons of Girl Scout cookies from her students who were scouts (nice) and then passed them all out to the class (not cool); my fellow soccer team parent who thinks a juice and Lay's is a fine post-game snack; etc. etc., to mention the over-the-top incidents I've just recounted here.

I'll ask parents why they think it's important for kids to be in 10 different afterschool activities — why time with their families is somehow less important than music lessons and traveling soccer and a third language.

Allow it to blossom in its natural form, and a lot of parents today... I've got cousins who are being pushed by their parent to do soccer, and often I think a parent's job is to protect, but they can also be quite restricting.

It was also deeply satisfying to know that someone else out there thinks the same way I do, and that I'm not the only parent refusing to sign my kids up for soccer and hockey because I don't want those commitments to fill our family life with yet more chaos.

For a generation whose parents whisked them off to soccer or band practice after school and wouldn't think of letting them play unsupervised in the street, unstructured time with others is important.