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Take the Children Bowling. Take them Bowling.
August 5, 2006
I have decided that I am going to do a P.E. unit with my children on BOWLING. What fun! We went bowling yesterday for the first time in a long time and, well, basically...I SUCK, but I have a wonderfully good time sucking, and the kids seem to enjoy it, too. Even Monk, with his "I can't be happy unless I am winning even though I am not at all interested in learning HOW to actually bowl with any sort of technique and basically I just roll the ball all willy nilly down the lane without really thinking about it" attitude. hahahaha. He was getting all raw and emotiony about everything and I finally had to throw up my hands and say "Listen, dude. I don't know what I can say to actually help you through this...so you just let me know if there's anything I can do. In the meantime, I am just buttoning my lip and enjoying me some fun bowling."
Then there's Coley who bowled one game and got "tired."
And P, our guest bowler, who is a 5-year old jock extraordinaire. He beat me the first game! Of course, he had bumpers and I didn't...but in the words of my smartass sidekick "your superior adult skills should beat out bumpers"...so I beat him in the second game, but BARELY. and, really...the bumpers only came into play for him every once in awhile. That kid can throw a freaking bowling ball! He just gets up there on that line and gives it a good send off and the pins just all seem to bow down to his awesomeness. hahahaha. I admit to feeling pangs of regretful jealousy over his talent. And I think I mistakenly said "Well, it is clear that our family just lacks the jock gene." which only served to piss Monk off more.
So, yeah. In the interest of teaching the children a lesson in "practice makes perfect" or, at least "practice makes one a lot less sucky" I am instituting a weekly or maybe bi-weekly bowling tournament. We will track our scores. Maybe make charts to see if we are improving. We will read books about bowling technique. Talk about the science of bowling. Figure out how in fuck to score a game (we rely so much on that silly computer to do all of that for us). Practice. Practice. Practice. And measure where we are at the beginning vs. where we end up.
I think it's going to be a fun time....if I can endure Monk's pissiness. hahaha.
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