Game Dilemma - LSU vs attending daughter's game - Page 6

Ldlane · November 5th, 2009, 05:04 PM

	Quote:	biglsufan
	Girl's basketball is not a sport. Go to the Bama game to see Bama lose.

Maybe, you guys just don't have a good team!

Go to your daughter's game and get updates texted to you from ESPN.

biglsufan · November 5th, 2009, 05:08 PM

	Quote:	Ldlane
	Maybe, you guys just don't have a good team! Go to your daughter's game and get updates texted to you from ESPN.

Actually our girls basketball team misses less layups and dribbles off their feet less than most teams.

TNBama · November 5th, 2009, 08:46 PM

Keep your priorities straight - family first. Dont be "one of those dads". I Tivo several games a year for the same reason, and I might have to do it for the end of this game. Ask yourself which do you love more: Bama or your daughter. If you say Bama, you have a serious problem.

SavannahDare · November 5th, 2009, 09:17 PM

Attendance at a regular, non-championship, non-tournament-type game for a child does not equal love. Anyone trying to prove their love by hovering over their child at all times might need to step away from the "feminization of America" parenting handbook that all the mommies seem to have been reading these past 30 years or so.

Never going to any of your child's games, that would be a problem. Missing one game once in a while to do something you, as an adult, enjoy doing sans child, SO not a problem.

BamaRevT · November 5th, 2009, 09:32 PM

Go to your daughters BB game with your headset on listening to Eli and company. Your children grow up only once, and spending time with them growing up is " PRICELESS " ! We have two daughters that played sports,cheer leaded and we tried to support them all through their growing up time. I have tons of videos I have recorded of them while playing sports, church events, home etc. We sit down from time to time and watch them. These have grown up and now have children of their own. We have eight grandchildren, six boys and two girls that my wife and I are crazy over. Now we get to enjoy watching them play sports. (Those who are old enough) As a matter of fact, my youngest daughter and I were planning to attend the Bama/Ut game, but both of my grandsons were playing flag football against each other that Saturday. I taped their game, which is a treasure to me and my family for years to come. There are precious few If any who love BAMA more than I do,but sometimes higher priorities come first,i.e. FAMILY.

VolFan1 · November 5th, 2009, 10:59 PM

Anything your daughter will do is more important than football....now I am not saying don't try and work around whatever she is doing so you can see football. Your child won't always play sports that you are going to necessarily go and watch. Be there for her, it means more than a ball game.

Last week UT played at 7:45. We went trick or treating, I was back to the TV about 10 minutes before kickoff. At halftime we headed to the in laws, I missed 1 series of the second half then got to watch the rest of it.

Tivo is GREAT!

gamersfuel · November 5th, 2009, 11:02 PM

this is a nobrainer imo. go to your kids game. nothing like seeing their hard work payoff as well as them having fun on a somewhat larger scale than normal.

CrimsonJag · November 5th, 2009, 11:55 PM

I understand kids' events on the weekends. It's kind of hard for a school to schedule an event around everyone's schedule.

What gets me is people who schedule weddings on a game day. The schedules are out far enough in advance to avoid this.

I mean, seriously. LOL

I know, I know. Not everyone is a rabid football fan.

We get 12 scheduled days a year. We wait 8 long, agonizing months for those 12 days. Shoot, it's not really even twelve days. It's more like 48 hours.

Figure if a game goes long to make it four hours long. That's 48 hours out of 8760 hours in a year to plan a wedding around. And don't get me started on leap year numbers!

Can't people find something less obtrusive on the other 350+ days and hours?

Now funerals on the other hand...

ReturnToGlory · November 6th, 2009, 12:27 AM

Why not quit spending so much time on Tidefans and use that time to spend with the kids??? Maybe you could watch them sleep

cbi1972 · November 6th, 2009, 11:02 AM

	Quote:	CrimsonJag
	Now funerals on the other hand...

Closed casket and/or cremation will solve that problem.

fireater · November 6th, 2009, 11:24 AM

How many of us have ever missed one of our kids games/events because of work conflicts? And how many of us have also broken world land speed records getting to one of those events? It is about priorities and opportunities, and what you make of them. Being at your kids every game is not how a parent should be judged, but not being there could be a different story.

TNBama · November 6th, 2009, 12:23 PM

It just amazes me that there is such a debate on this. The only time I miss family events is when I absolutely cannot make it. Football is not in that catagory.

People complain so much of the younger generation being a "me generation" and not having a grasp on priorities and commitments, and how families are falling apart. Maybe its because that is what so many of us are teaching our children. I dont go to my daughters games because "its the right thing to do", I go because I want her to know that she is the most important thing in this world to me, and I support her no matter what, and I want her to grow up having proper priorities and be a good citizen by following my example. Sorry folks, but as much as it eats me up not watching a Bama game live, I cannot comprehend missing one of my daughter's activites for something as relatively insignificant as a Bama game. And it sadens me when others DONT prioritize their kids.

Ldlane · November 6th, 2009, 01:43 PM

	Quote:	SavannahDare
	Attendance at a regular, non-championship, non-tournament-type game for a child does not equal love. Anyone trying to prove their love by hovering over their child at all times might need to step away from the "feminization of America" parenting handbook that all the mommies seem to have been reading these past 30 years or so. Never going to any of your child's games, that would be a problem. Missing one game once in a while to do something you, as an adult, enjoy doing sans child, SO not a problem.

I don't think that it equals love, but I think it says more about priorities and commitment. Alabama and LSU will be playing for years to come, but you will only get to live a "special" moment that might happen at your child's game once! Would you tell the parents of one of the Bama players that they should do something else besides attend their child's football game?