Great parenting

[Shaun @ Tru6]

As we are nearly down the 2021 mountain, I hope we can all take the chairlift up to the top of this family's mountain and make 2022 a happy, positive year with the joy in our hearts of this 3-year-old girl.

[wilnj]

Saw that. Here’s another.

https://youtu.be/A3-L3YwU-iQ

[A930Rocket]

So adorable. Little kids are so cute, with not a care in the world.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

So adorable. Little kids are so cute, with not a care in the world.

It's sad that so many people grow up.

[Tobra]

Even more tragic is that so many fail to

[flatbutt]

She's just too cute!

[unclebilly]

We have a kid in our ski club who is 8. He is easily the best skier in the club and will make the Canadian Olympic team (his dad did). The kid is a total natural and is amazing to watch.

He sleeps in his race suit… he is on skis 4 days a week and will get in +/-80 days of race training this year.

My kids are great skiers, but not on the same level as this kid. At 6 years old, he preran one of our U16 races and was faster than half the field.

On the upside, my 11yo son, Clay did get on his GS skis at training for the first time today and loved them. These are 5cm longer than my wife’s skis…

[MMiller]

Raising confident self-aware kids....

Hope for the future.. Indeed

[vash]

i think it's amazing.

kid learns confidence! which is paramount.

and find enjoyment from stuff not coming at them from a computer screen. bolsters a future that is healthier from an active lifestyle.

win. i wish all kids had access to a winter playland. our ski place sucked when i was a kid.

[Superman]

Kids seem, often, to be in a hurry to grow into adults. I tell them this is not an upgrade. I don't expect them to listen. And yet, there are these sayings:

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

It is never too late to have a happy childhood.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

My cousin, great mom, reposted this on FB.

Stop cutting 6 feet off your parenting.

A few years ago we were at soccer practice- I have never forgotten this moment. The kids were told to run around the field, go to the corner and make their way back to the center. The first few kids did it correctly, but they all quickly started cutting the corner. When my son got to the point where kids were cutting, I yelled out "all the way to the corner! Do it right! We aren't cheaters!"

One of the kids fathers looked at me and goes "geez, it's only 6 feet."

I didn't say anything at the time. I shrugged it off and sat back down. But his comment has literally stuck with me for years now and I've always wondered "would you cut 6' off a wall if you were building a house? 6 inches? 6 centimeters?"
No. You wouldn't. You're going to do your best to build that house exactly to spec. You aren't going to say "oh, well, this board is 6 feet short, too bad-we'll make it work." You're going to go out and get another board. Why? Because cutting corners on that home causes structural integrity issues. Cutting corners means you end up with a lopsided house that can't be trusted to provide you shelter in storms.

I've been volunteering at the school on Monday's. There are 45 kids in the club I work with. It's terrible. Absolutely horrible. I love volunteering, I love working with my sons class, but I've never seen anything like this before. These kids are mean, nasty, and disrespectful. They have zero accountability. They scream, they run, they don't listen, they don't follow directions. They aren't quiet when the teacher talks. They have no respect whatsoever.

The problem is the lack of parenting. The problem is, these parents think it's ok to cut 6 feet off their job. Do you realize you are raising an adult? Not a child? We don't raise children, we raise adults. It is your job to teach them to be decent people. It's your job to teach them what is right and what is wrong. It's your job to teach respect and responsibility. (Don't even get me started on the kids that have zero idea how to clean up after themselves.)

When you choose to take a short cut on parenting, you are choosing to cut that 6' off that wall. You are messing up the integrity of your child. You are teaching them that it is ok to be lopsided and not put in full effort.
As a society we need to stop cutting that 6'. Don't let your child cut 6', because then the next one thinks it's ok, and then the next. Then we have an even bigger problem.

Stop cutting 6'. Stop letting your child cut 6'. The era of children being raised right now is not a good one. Something needs to change.

I could go on further, I could write an entire book. But I know most people don't even read this much at all (that's another thing, bring back books!), so I'll stop here. Just please, stop cutting 6' off your parenting. Your child needs a solid foundation, solid walls, a solid roof if you expect them to become decent people.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

this is just way too adorable.

[Seahawk]

Sorry for the hijack, but I bet this young man had excellent parents and I didn't want to start a new thread.

Ignore the website, focus on the young man, an f'ing star:

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2022/01/21/feel-good-friday-an-uber-driver-goes-above-and-beyond-for-one-passenger-and-gets-recognized-for-his-efforts-n510714

Or here: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/08/us/uber-driver-i95-job-trnd/?iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion

Watch the videos.

He said he kept checking on his passenger and offering her drinks and snacks he kept in the car.

"She's telling me she's okay, but I could hear her on the phone talking to family and friends and I can hear that she's just exhausted, emotional, and just tired," he said.
Williams said he didn't have any blankets in the car and he was concerned about his gas getting low from him running the car to use the heat.

He was eventually able to follow a work truck and some other cars and turn around on I-95 and head back to DC.

Williams didn't want to leave the passenger at Union Station by herself, so he convinced her parents to let him get a hotel room for her -- with his own money -- so that she could rest and be safe.

The parents were reluctant at first, but agreed that it was the best idea.
"They don't know me, I don't know them, and I get it," Williams said. "They just want to make sure their child is safe."

He got her checked into the hotel at about 8 that morning and offered to take the passenger back to Williamsburg for free once the roads cleared.
A friend of her family was able to take her home.

"So around about 8:30 Tuesday night, she texted me and said she was safe," he said. "She thanked me for everything and her parents had also thanked me, for doing what I did for their daughter because I didn't have to do it."
Uber is reimbursing Williams for the cost of hotel room and thanked him for doing so much for his passenger.

"Mr. Williams went above and beyond during this very stressful situation, and we thank him for his thoughtful actions," a company spokesperson said in an email to CNN.
The company said that "not all heroes wear capes" in a post on Twitter.
Williams got paid $107 for the ride, but his extraordinary customer service has earned him a new opportunity.
He was offered a part time job as a lead driver at Alto, an upscale rideshare company that operates in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and DC.
Williams said he would be training other drivers on customer service and maintaining their vehicles.

"We are thrilled," a spokeswoman said in an email to CNN. "DaVante is exactly the type of customer and safety focused leader we are looking to help lead our DC presence."

Williams said they are still working out the details of the offer because he works full time as a property manager and realtor.

Perfect stuff.

[Sooner or later]

Rescue Riders to the rescue!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Been a few years