tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post205794471841662577..comments2024-02-13T01:25:33.947-05:00Comments on The Gods Are Bored: The Wizard of the YAnne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-30669858543924557382008-10-23T10:00:00.000-04:002008-10-23T10:00:00.000-04:00Sott'eos' comment makes a good point. From the mo...Sott'eos' comment makes a good point. From the moment of conception parents are inundated with dos and don'ts and "The 10 Million Best Ways to Scar Your Child and Not Know." Maybe many parents offer their children money and what it can provide because they don't believe in their own personal ability to parent and influence their child's life for the better?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-29433288705724332012008-10-23T09:45:00.000-04:002008-10-23T09:45:00.000-04:00What a wonderful story about the wizard of the Y!M...What a wonderful story about the wizard of the Y!<BR/><BR/>My mom is afraid of deep water and so vowed that my sister and I would learn to swim at very young ages. She took each of us to parent-and-baby swim lessons at the Y when we were under a year old. (My understanding is that a swim teacher would coach the parents on what to do with the babies, but parents and babies were in the pool together the whole time.) Both my sister and I grew up swimming and continue to love it to this day.<BR/><BR/>I plan to do the same thing with my baby--get 'em in the pool when they're a few months old. Maybe there will be a wizard at our Y, too.Inannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16117834687295375810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-83059750686936890182008-10-23T08:10:00.000-04:002008-10-23T08:10:00.000-04:00Some of the comments here seem to focus on these p...Some of the comments here seem to focus on these parents being selfish, or feeling that work is beneath them. I think that something else is going on. It has benefited many industries to convince people (not just parents) that they are not competent and could cause severe (expensive) irreparable harm if they don't hand many tasks over to professionals. <BR/><BR/>You can't teach your child to swim; you could scar them for life. We have 'certified' professionals who can do a much better job. You can't do your own brake job; you could kill your entire family! For just a small fortune, corporate America will take care of the big, bad, complicated, dangerous world (you silly little idiots).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-38933333102209386222008-10-23T02:20:00.000-04:002008-10-23T02:20:00.000-04:00Paying someone else to spend time with my kids alw...Paying someone else to spend time with my kids always seemed to me as silly as paying someone else to eat a great meal for me or to listen to wonderful music for me. I really don't understand the parents who find a cell phone conversation more interesting than their child's new experiences. I am sad for them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-53184051229623517542008-10-22T20:55:00.000-04:002008-10-22T20:55:00.000-04:00I wish I'd had your wizard around. Or at least som...I wish I'd had your wizard around. Or at least someone with some kindness to them.<BR/><BR/>I was one of those kids too scared to put my face in the water when they tried to teach us in 6th grade (my middle school, though it was otherwise a horrible 70's abomination, for some reason had a pool). The TA decided that the best way to get me to do it was to attempt to bully me into doing it, which is kind of <I>not</I> how you deal with someone who's already frightened. I never did manage it, being an extremely stubborn type (especially when scared), and it was a very, very traumatic thing for me.<BR/><BR/>I still can't swim.Thaliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09948272740932982138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-5634973862434149732008-10-22T18:58:00.000-04:002008-10-22T18:58:00.000-04:00I loved that story..I wish the Wizzard was still a...I loved that story..<BR/>I wish the Wizzard was still around, he sounded very smart.<BR/>I taught all 3 of the kids to swim..the boys were really easy, but mojo has a mind of her own..When i would try and teach her she would wiggle out of my arms and say'I can do it myself.'..and then she would get in the shallow water and walk across the bottom of the pool, with her head laying on the side of the water and making swimming strokes from one side of the pool to the other.when i pointing out to her that she wasn't swimming she was walking..she said"you swim your way, I'll swim mine."..and eventually she taught her self..but she wouldn't let anyone 'teach her anything'...I'll do it myself mom.'...geezyellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-89410999387846879302008-10-22T16:26:00.000-04:002008-10-22T16:26:00.000-04:00This is the American way. Work is something you p...This is the American way. Work is something you pay immigrants to do for you.<BR/><BR/>Reading these snippets I wish my Mom had had a computor and a blog, so I could go back and find what was on her mind when she had me, then lost me, then found me again.Alex Pendragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15877845166621794334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-18668576405520069712008-10-22T15:26:00.000-04:002008-10-22T15:26:00.000-04:00I saw a story a while back on a news show, where p...I saw a story a while back on a news show, where people were hiring someone to teach their kids to ride a bike. Whhhaaaa? Not only were they missing out on a life moment with their child, they were paying someone big bucks to do it!<BR/><BR/>Stupid. The sad part is, these types are so selfish and lost in themselves, they probably won't ever realize what they missed.KrisMrsBBradleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988742743150495260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-32721910917916982962008-10-22T13:26:00.000-04:002008-10-22T13:26:00.000-04:00What a great story and a great guy the wizard was....What a great story and a great guy the wizard was. I was one of those swim teachers and you are absolutely right I got to experience a lot of joy from the child as the mom sat in the viewing room. I also go to experience a lot of snotty noses and spit up..sagewebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818567803401688931noreply@blogger.com