Our house hold is made up of 2 boys 11 and 15 both will be wrestling at State this weekend...and our 13yr old (going on 21) daughter. My husband coaches wrestling and we spend on average 3 nights a week at it along with the weekends starting last December. Last week our kids were on spring break and our daughter was trying to arrange to go bowling with friends..one who wrestles..and as she would ask about a date...no, practice, no,set up for districts, no weigh ins, no Districts..I admit to feeling guilty. We did manage to fit a 3hr bowling afternoon into the week!
My husband also coaches JR Wrestling and as our daughter was a 7th grader this year she played Basketball at the same time....she was quite upset that Dad was not attending her games due to JR high practices and duals....he took off 2 practices and missed one dual to help keep her happy. She said she might as well quit BB and wrestle so her dad would be around to watch her. She is quite tall and a great BB player...and she has tried wrestling (actually won a few!) but she's too cute to wrestle with boys her age! Atleast in our opinion!! Remember...her dad coaches Jr high boys... In the past few years my daughter and I would travel to her MYOB tourneys...while my husband and the boys wrestled. We kept updated by phone thru out the weekends...She is involved in a dance class and we reserve a weekend in June for her performances...just for her and the boys attend both nights. Both of us have coached her Softball teams and soccer teams in the past... It takes work to keep a household of 3 happy...and as you know with teens they are never happy for too long at a time!
I like the night out with each child...that's a great idea!
Good luck this weekend....the daughter is already trying to figure out how to be elsewhere!!!
