Almighty Dad | A stay at home dad blog

   
    
Did you know there’s an under 6 category at the US Kids Golf World Championship?  There’s also an 8 and under basketball tournament sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Union.  An estimated 35 million American kids participate in some kind of organized athletics.  My own two kids participate in organized gymnastics (not that there’s a disorganized kind).  I’m concerned for all these kids who are being pushed at such young ages to compete as if they were adults.  My oldest boy is a fantastic gymnast, and[…]

 
We can’t all be Michael Jordan or Mia Hamm.  Few of us have those kinds of athletic genes.  Of course, that doesn’t stop kids from wanting to participate in sports and it doesn’t stop parents from shelling out gobs of cash for said sports.  I found out yesterday just how expensive having an athletic kid is going to be, and I doubt I can afford it.  The average cost per family for kid’s sports is $2000 according to NBC.  Dang, that’s expensive!  My boys are[…]