My daughters award from the school after finishing 8th grade with Advanced STEM courses.

Nice, but I'm headed to the school office for a correct one for framing.

https://www.greatschools.org/oregon/fairview/999-Reynolds-Middle-School/

New 'fixed' award. The wife (a Tiger Mom) was not happy with the original.
https://time.com/88125/the-tiger-mom-effect-is-real-says-large-study/

 

Another Human Tribalism example showing it is strong and doing well!
Sports
Max.

 

Another Human Tribalism example showing it is strong and doing well!
Sports
Max.

The kid obviously made a bad call.

 

The kid obviously made a bad call.

That was their excuse !
Max.

 

The kid obviously made a bad call.

Question, if an umpire makes a bad call, can he recognize his mistake and retract?

 

Question, if an umpire makes a bad call, can he recognize his mistake and retract?

Is that really the issue here?
I thought it was all about teaching sportsmanship?
Max.

 

Is that really the issue here?
I thought it was all about teaching sportsmanship?
Max.

One of the key values of good sportsmanship, I think, is recognizing one's own errors

 

I thought it was all about teaching sportsmanship?

Childhood is about leaning to survive in an oftentimes malevolent world.

The kids learned a good lesson: hit while the other guy ain't looking...

 

Sportsmanship hasn't been practiced or taught in decades. Winning is the only thing.

 

Winning is the only thing.

Hey, winning may not be the only thing...but it sure beats losing.

 

I must be missing something! It is the behavior of the parents that is disgusting.
Max.

 

Losing.........only means that you are the second, best.

 

It is the behavior of the parents that is disgusting.

Parents? No, those were just kids that never grew up.

 

Hey honey, get the kids ready, let's go down to the ball park this afternoon, and show them how to fist fight.

Show them what winners are, what winning is about, and how to decisively win. After all, one can't win, unless he really tries.

And above all..............make sure the loser knows he's a loser.

21st century life in America.

The winners are the losers and the losers want to be the winners.

 

21st century life in America.

I'm curios: how is this different than the 1920s, 1950s, or 1980s? I clearly remember idiot parents and their children. They behaved exactly like those in the video. The difference is: nobody ever called the cops.

XYZ: your ill-founded nostalgia is showing.

 

I umpired Little League games. One afternoon, I was working a close game. Near the end of that game, the count was 3-2. The pitcher threw an obvious strike and the batter didn’t swing. I delayed making the call. The longer the delay, the more I felt the parents in the stands staring at me. Then with an accompanying sigh, I called “Strike”. There was applause and a smattering of laughter from the parents.

That moment was excruciating. The batter was my son.

 

different than the 1920s, 1950s, or 1980s

My kids never got into fights. I, on the other hand, got into fights at least once a week and they were not started by me. Clocked from behind with a 2x4, knocked off my bike to have it stolen, schoolyard fights, after-school fights, etc. From what my grandfather told me he basically had to fight his way home from school every day. Things are much more civilized these days. At least face to face and not hiding behind the anonymity of a handle on social media. People will now do and say things online they would never do face to face.

 

How many here, when you were a kid, have ever seen their parents fist fight over a ball game?

Denying what we had, excuses and enables the behavior of today. We use to be decent, because we use to have moral and civil standards.

"It's no big deal. We have always been the same, we just hear more about it today."

Everything's fine.........We've studied and researched it........it's just normal behavior. It's happened in the past.

Secular dogma.

We never killed our off-spring before.

We never gave murderers a free long full life before. Many only get 10 years of free life. For murder.

xxx ......

No wonder many today believe that the past was just ill-founded nostalgia. It's very scary other wise.

But enough.....don't believe any minds will change. And I no longer have to live out in it. But I do worry about the young and what they don't know.


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No politics.

 

But enough.....don't believe any minds will change. And I no longer have to live out in it. But I do worry about the young and what they don't know.

But of course as humans, tribalism is hard wired in to us.
Just that when I see it at that level I cannot help but shake my head, but as you point out, you cannot oppose the inevitable.
Max.

 

How many here, when you were a kid, have ever seen their parents fist fight over a ball game?

Denying what we had, excuses and enables the behavior of today. We use to be decent, because we use to have moral and civil standards.

"It's no big deal. We have always been the same, we just hear more about it today."

Everything's fine.........We've studied and researched it........it's just normal behavior. It's happened in the past.

Secular dogma.

We never killed our off-spring before.

We never gave murderers a free long full life before. Many only get 10 years of free life. For murder.

We never had a sitting president with his political party, use the willing free press, cia, fbi, state dept and even foreign governments, to frame and setup an incoming president.

That's a new one. No ill-founded nostalgia there.

Has any president ever followed the constitution that way before? Supposedly, he studied the constitution too.

No wonder many today believe that the past was just ill-founded nostalgia. It's very scary other wise.

But enough.....don't believe any minds will change. And I no longer have to live out in it. But I do worry about the young and what they don't know.

History didn't start in the 20th Century. I suppose you never heard of the French Revolution. Meet the new boss -- same as the old boss.

Tribalism has been the bane of humanity since the beginning of time. Nothing new under the sun.