YES!!! Power to the conversation…. I am also struck hat this is a way to teach them about the realities of life: you will have to make choices. Rarely will it be easy!

I love this idea of watching the replay together… AND your “being the first” to see that replay!

Same here, we have three sons and a fourth on the way, I’m not ever going to practice sessions of all their hobbies of all four of them later on (eldest is 4 years old). Here in the Netherlands that is most common fortunately and kids generally don’t do many hobbies outside 35 hours per week of preschool (from 3-4 years) here until they are 5 or 6.

This is so great! I was also wondering why a parent would *need* to attend a T-ball practice? Games, I understand, but practice? Unless that speaker was actually one of the coaches – that would make more sense.

Whoa, people make snarky comments about the working parents even though you’re actually participating? Is it a public school? That is ridiculous. I would absolutely speak up (to the principal or staff or PTA president if they’re not one of the annoying ones) about it. I have asked my husband to attend the PTA meetings at the kids’ new school because I’m getting a strong vibe that it’s always the moms doing the work, and I kind of want to take a stand against that 🙂

I agree with this. I recently missed the camp show (10 am on a Wednesday). I am a physician and I cannot cancel patients for every performance, but someone attends and I always tell my kids I can’t be there but dad or baby sitter will video it and I cannot wait to watch the video with them and hear all about it. I try to pick and choose a few big events for each of them and plan in advance to schedule the time off to attend. The kids always know which events I will and will not attend and how excited I am to discussed the event later.