Jul 10, 2015
The
US women's soccer victory in the World Cup got us thinking
about sports and women's sports and whether our daughters will be
inspired by this sort of thing ... and then realizing that out
of the four of us, two of us had nothing to say about sports and
one had fled the country. So we sent Catherine as our ambassador
into Sportsland to chat with our
Round 4 contributor and resident sports guy Charlie Zegers about
whether this means people are finally going to start caring about
soccer and women's sports.
She returned to join Amanda and Terri in a little ranting in the style of Amy Poelher and Seth Meyers' "Really?" rant about the dissing of women's sports. Terri wondered why, really, online job applications for minimum-wage gigs require endless pages of psychological questions; Catherine asked her kids if really, they have to be in her face all summer long; and Amanda marveled that, really, special-education departments can just close over the summer and leave new students with IEPs to scramble at the last minute?
With all that out of our system, we made our recommendations for the week: Catherine has an article on "How (and Why) You Can Support Women's Sports"; Amanda liked an article by Katherine Lewis on "What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?" (really?); and Terri shared some links to stories about sports programs for kids with special needs and ways to adapt sports for inclusion and start an inclusive sports program.
Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our episode and Kristen Eredics for our happy in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, go to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.