Jeannette Mosher retweeted
Youth sports sold a national travel circuit by 7th grade, and most families don’t figure out it isn’t worth it until junior year. By then the money’s gone and/or the kid is cooked.
The travel is the product. Physical wear, emotional wear, and a bill that has nothing to do with getting better. The gap between a “packed national event” and a good local game is smaller than the brochure says. You already know who can play. Flying them around doesn’t change that.
End result for a lot of these kids is a pat on the back, you get to play D3 or nothing at all. Same outcome a lot of them would’ve had staying home, competing hard, and not treating 13 like a recruiting deadline.
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
Are we helping kids… or teaching them to run from hard things?
I see this all the time in schools.
A student has a problem with a teacher, coach, classmate, or situation, and too often the first response is to remove the problem.
Switch the class.
Quit the team.
Avoid the conversation.
Have the parent step in and fix it.
I understand the instinct. We don’t want to see our kids struggle.
But Dr. Becky Kennedy said something powerful:
“The more you optimize for happiness in childhood, the more you actually wire for anxiety in adulthood.”
Kids need to learn that disappointment is survivable.
Conflict is survivable.
Failure is survivable.
Being uncomfortable is survivable.
Sometimes the best thing we can do for kids isn’t remove the hard thing.
It’s help them learn how to walk through it.
College wbb need to use the reset timeout to advance the ball. Ridiculous how long the games longer the last minute!
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
My friend took his 4-year-old daughter to Urgent Care on a Sunday for a high fever and a bad cough.
They were in the building for 35 minutes. A nurse took her vitals, and a doctor spent 4 minutes looking in her throat before prescribing generic amoxicillin.
The total bill came out to $1,240.
His insurance plan paid $180. The rest went straight to his "in-network deductible."
He called the billing department to ask how 4 minutes with a doctor costs $1,060 out of pocket.
The representative said: "That’s the pre-negotiated rate set by your insurer."
We built a healthcare system where paying $500 a month for coverage doesn't cover medical care…… it just buys you the right to be charged thousands for a 5-minute visit.
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
ANYONE REALIZE HOW UNBELIEVABLE IT IS THAT BIG PHARMA HAS A DRUG FOR EVERYTHING..
BUT A CURE FOR NOTHING..
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
Average players goof around until it's their turn at practice.
Better players watch whoever goes before them.
Good players notice what the player did right or wrong.
Great players LEARN when the coach corrects someone else... so they don't waste a rep making the same mistake.
@6am_Practice
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
I really like Elena Rybakina. No walk on theatrics, no designer kit, not dripping in jewels, no grunting and outlandish fist pumping, just lets her tennis do the talking. #usopen
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
I'm not asking for a lot, all I really want is to go back to when
- Killing children was bad
- Crime was punished
- The American flag wasn't seen as racist
- Men wore dresses because they lost a bet
- Merit was considered not skin color
- America first was by default
- You didn't get special treatment because of who you slept with
- Illegal immigration was still considered a crime
Can we get back there?
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
Every single problem in America ties back to illegal aliens and the need for mass deportations.
Housing costs.
Schools overcrowding.
Infrastructure needs.
Crime.
Food prices.
Energy prices.
Jobs.
Once we deport every single illegal alien every single day will be Christmas.
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
Somewhere along the way, basketball became something players train for individually. It’s not tennis. There are nine other players on the court. Learn the nuances of the game instead of constantly working on dribble moves against nobody. So much time is wasted in empty gyms.
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
If I ran the College Football NCAA this wouid happen:
- players only have four years of eligibility unless there is a season ending injury then add one year
- players can be compensated through full ride scholarships only
- players need to maintain at least a 2.5 GPA
- players cannot return to play if they jump to the NFL
Easy peasy. Stop the bullsh*t.
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
LSU just added two players, two days before they play; I remember when you had to actually enroll in classes before you could join a sports team and there was a deadline for that. I guess that rule just vanished. How old-fashioned of me, thinking college players should actually be in college. Forget going to class, they don’t even need to enroll anymore.
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
I'm sorry that this will piss off half the parents reading this:
Your 11 year old probably doesn’t need a $8,000-a-year travel team.
Meanwhile, mom and dad haven’t had a weekend alone in 8 months because every Friday afternoon the SUV is packed for another tournament 4 hours away.
They need to just play sports (if they want).
There’s a difference.
$3,000 team fee.
$2,500 hotels.
$1,500 eating out.
$500 uniforms.
$500 entrance fees
Every weekend gone, and somehow we convince ourselves this makes us better parents.
Then we wonder why marriages struggle. Put the kid in rec ball and let them play with their buddies.
Take your wife to dinner. Take a family vacation that doesn’t involve a Marriott next to a sports complex.
If your kid is truly THAT good, you’ll eventually know.
But I think a lot of parents are sacrificing their marriage, money and entire family calendar chasing a scholarship that probably isn’t coming.
I agree that most kids need sports.
I’m just not convinced they need travel sports.
That's me - the one who forgot their $5 hat for picture day on a team that cost $20 for the season.
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
When Barack Obama was president, he ushered in more than 70,000 Somalians to Minnesota. When Joe Biden was president, he ushered in more than 12 Million illegal immigrants from every corner of the world.
Are you aware that both these Men gave us every problem we have today ?
Jeannette Mosher retweeted
🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥
CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”
Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”
CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”
Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”
CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”
Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”
CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”
Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”
CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”
Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”
CNN: “Você está polarizando.”
Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”
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Jeannette Mosher retweeted
Winning isn’t a destination.
It’s a daily behavior.
“You have to practice and play and behave like a winner if you want to win games.”
Kara Lawson 👇
Why am I paying taxes on my paycheck… then sales tax just to spend that money… then income tax on money that’s already been taxed… then property tax on land I bought with taxed money after paying sales tax on it… then vehicle tax just to drive to work… gas tax to fill the tank… energy tax to keep the lights on… death tax when I die… and God help me if I try to save any cash, because they’ll just inflate that away too.





















