In the past 2 weeks of James going to Boys & Girls club he has come home and obsessed on 2 things: basketball & pool. And I view that as a serious success from a parenting perspective. He is dually interested in something athletic and cerebral.
He has been practicing pool at home the last couple of days and we even played a game this morning before I left for work. He needs that practice, and he needs to learn to slow down and focus. But I know that will come with time. From watching James play soccer and other sports there is little doubt that he knows how to focus when he plays. If anything in soccer he was thinking a little too much. So I know he will arrive at that place with pool.
And it was very instructive to watch him play basketball against a bigger kid at my Dad's the other night. Boy does he have quick hands! The poor kid had a real hard time dribbling against him.
I thought about posting this on the normal family blog, but decided that it belonged here as this site is partially dedicated to my raising my little freerangegeeks. Kids who are well rounded and interested in a multitude of activities. It's important to know (and teach) that life is not all Lego's and computer games.
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