The Parent Playbook: Better Safe Than Sorry

BETTER safe than sorry. Parents with such a mentality tend to be risk-averse, anti-adventure, possibly even paranoid. These are the sorts of parents who tend to encourage their children to spend less CCA or co-curricular hours in a week. Why don’t they support those grueling, six-hour or more CCAs, like sports or uniformed groups? No, too taxing, too time-consuming. No wonder the students who go for CCAs such as Media Resources and Astrology Club are considered wimps—losers, if you will. 

When Work and Play Are One

JOHN Jameson makes a compelling observation about how, in happy fortunate cases, the line between work and play is blurred. The lucky few in this world who experience this work-play overlap are those who have found their true calling, regardless of their field—folks such as professional sportsmen like Tiger Woods for instance, or tech geeks like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, or even businessmen-turned-politicians like Donald Trump.

A Toast to Sports

THINK sports, and fitness comes to mind. For the not so physically inclined, sports is not appealing at all. There’s the outdoor factor, the heat, that stinky, sweaty feeling, the bugs, the exhaustion. This way of looking at sports, though, is pessimistic. It is certainly the world view of a slacker, slackers just like me.

How can I convince myself that sports is good for me? I’m going to try.