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I'm jealous of anyone who can donate anything out of their body---no part of me will ever be accepted.
You can always donate you're entire body after you die.
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I'm jealous of anyone who can donate anything out of their body---no part of me will ever be accepted.
You can always donate you're entire body after you die.
I've actually thought about it; I was used as a science experience while alive, I may as well be one when I'm dead.
You should definitely read "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach. I thought I wanted to donate my body to science when I died and now I definitely don't.
Unless I'm plasticized. I'd be down for that. But I'd want my body to be kept together.
^^^The above = why my (HS) team does not have a Team Mom. Make cookies, paint signs for their comps, whatever fun thing you want to do as a group, but no one is the official Team Mom. So no one runs anything around here as a parent. You are all equal.
Ex: A group of you can all get together and decide you want to buy balloons for their send-off (as long as you are including all cheerleaders and not just your child, and that you have run it by me), but you can't send an email say "I am team mom and I need you to ________."
That also means that no one is my representative. So, no one can say "I spoke with Coach and she said we need to _______ for the girls."
Every now and then, a new parent who is maybe the team mom of her kid's all star team or was previously the team mom at the middle school will come in and try to behave like a Team Mom and start emailing parents asking them to get things together for events that she wants to plan (Ex: One mom tried to plan a pool party on top of a pool party the coaching staff organized, because she "wanted a special pool party just to celebrate the rookies.") That gets shot down really quickly.
I know that several people on Fierceboard are probably WONDERFUL team moms/dads and they would NEVER think to try to play coach, boss other parents around, etc. However, I have always found that as soon as I place a label on the person who may plan some stuff for the girls or help me out a little, people get a little crazy and it goes to their heads.
Heck, the ROOM MOM at my kid's school seems to think that makes her the Beyonce of the elementary building, but that is another thread.
I had a conversation with a coach recently that started with "I don't want to be one of THOSE moms...eh who am I kidding. I'm totally being one of THOSE moms right now" :)You ARE a crazy cheer mom (or dad) if at any point during a conversation, email, text etc you have to point out that you are NOT one of those.
I'm not going to say much about this, but a mom asserting herself as team mom and then actually COACHING on the floor at several practices is one of the reasons my daughter chose allstar over high school. I just can't deal with that. If a high school coach can't manage her job without a parent, then maybe she's not the right person for the job. Parents need to not hover over their high school athletes. Ugh. And I apologize in advance if the parent reads this. :(
Back to my popcorn...
Elaine from Seinfeld? I didn't know she had cheer experience.Yikes.
Nope. Never ever.
The quickest way for a parent to rub me the wrong way is to try and tell me how to coach. Parents aren't even permitted in the gym area for practice, so there is no way they could ever try to "coach."
Something I HAVE dealt with (that I think is mostly a school cheer thing) is parents thinking/saying that they "have a lot of cheer experience" because (example) they cheered in HS.
So they'll start emails off with "back when I cheered..." not realizing that their 3 years of HS cheer experience circa 1974 doesn't give them a license to suggest formations or tell me who needs to be point flyer. I am no Elaine Pascale but I have enough experience to know what I'm doing. Please don't tell me how to run my team.
Yikes.
Nope. Never ever.
The quickest way for a parent to rub me the wrong way is to try and tell me how to coach. Parents aren't even permitted in the gym area for practice, so there is no way they could ever try to "coach."
Something I HAVE dealt with (that I think is mostly a school cheer thing) is parents thinking/saying that they "have a lot of cheer experience" because (example) they cheered in HS.
So they'll start emails off with "back when I cheered..." not realizing that their 3 years of HS cheer experience circa 1974 doesn't give them a license to suggest formations or tell me who needs to be point flyer. I am no Elaine Pascale but I have enough experience to know what I'm doing. Please don't tell me how to run my team.
I texted a suggestion to the coach that the cheerleaders not wear sparkle spankies. She has a cp on the team and agreed with my statement that some areas do not need that attention drawn to them.