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So my wife was teaching our 4mo old daughter the story of Thanksgiving.

"and so on Thanksgiving the Pilgrims and Indians became friends and shared all their food..."

To which I interjected:

"Thanksgiving was also the day that the white man gave the Indian's Budweiser and diabetes, and that is why Sonoma County now has a casino."

Am I wrong?
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you're both wrong
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How should I handle this situation? How should I teach my child about the story of Thanksgiving?
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At 4 months all my kids cared about was mom's tits.
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Merkin wrote:At 4 months all my kids cared about was mom's tits.
Nothings changed in that regard. :lol:
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This is an important question since people carry the lessons they learn in infancy regarding history and culture the rest of their lives. Has the little tyke read the original Massachussets charter yet?
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Chicat wrote:This is an important question since people carry the lessons they learn in infancy regarding history and culture the rest of their lives. Has the little tyke read the original Massachussets charter yet?
We're working on it between The Cat in the Hat and the cloth book of fuzzy animals. Never to early to get your US history learn on.
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Start mixing in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
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I think CST's history is right on the money. How is that not true?

During a Sunday service the Eucharist was being performed, a small child seated somewhere behind me asked her mother what all this meant with the bread and the wine. The mother whispered something to her child about the mystery of transubstantiation and the partaking of the body of Christ. In response to which the child yelled, "Even his testicles?"
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Honestly, I say you leave out the Pilgrims and the Native Americans... and say Thanksgiving is about.... wait for it.... giving thanks.

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Didn't know where to put this, so thought might be good here.

My wife's cousin is a freshman in high school. Good kid and loves basketball. He starts on his JV team and was 6th man for his travel team. He loves the NBA, but I took him to his first college game this year, CATS vs Providence @ Fullerton. He came away a big fan of the CATS.

Found out today from wife's aunt that he got cut from his travel team and that he been depressed about it for 6 weeks. I'm going to see him at a wedding this sat. We have a good bond so it will probably come up and I want to be supportive.

Another consideration is that he is a first generation in his immediate family and straddles the world of his parents with being raised in LA. We've talked about college, his career goals, and high school stuff like friends, shoes, cars, girls, etc. I get the sense he looks up to me like an Uncle, which is super cool.

In anticipation for hanging out this weekend, I've never been in this situation before. I know I'm not his dad, but I feel like I get what he's going through. Does anyone have some good ideas on advice/support if the topic of him being cut comes up?
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Sneak him a beer from the bar. He'll always remember you as the cool uncle.
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Find another club team. Lots of politics/favoritism in club ball.
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I agree on taking him to another club.

Taking him to a strip club will certainly raise his spirits.
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I agree about a new club team. Also, help turn those negative feelings into motivation, if he hasn't already.
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Merkin wrote:Sneak him a beer from the bar. He'll always remember you as the cool uncle.
Fucking priceless!

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CalStateTempe wrote:So my wife was teaching our 4mo old daughter the story of Thanksgiving.

"and so on Thanksgiving the Pilgrims and Indians became friends and shared all their food..."

To which I interjected:

"Thanksgiving was also the day that the white man gave the Indian's Budweiser and diabetes, and that is why Sonoma County now has a casino."

Am I wrong?
Native Americans, dick.
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How did it go? Lots of obvious learning lessons can come from getting cut. Someone probably won't want to hear the lesson, but they aren't gonna forget that talk and lesson when they are 25 and don't get the dream job they interviewed for. Plus getting "cut" as kids and adults frequently has absolutely nothing to do with them. I had two experiences with being cut from a sports team, learned lessons from both and both experiences made me better as a person. One out of my control and the other was my fault. Kids never want to hear they arent good enough, which is why I think its best to attack it from multiple angles.

Despite being the best 11 year old and better than most of the 12 year olds in my league, got cut from a Little League all star team. Basically three little league board members didnt like my knowledgable but outspoken father. For whatever reason, the three board members got a say that particular year and their votes trumped the two coaches' votes. Learned quite a bit about politics and sometimes things are just out of your control. And although my father wasnt really that bad, guess who is keeping their mouth shut when my kids are old enough to play sports? Ended up working out, coaches Romar'd a kid for something really minor to open a spot for me.

Thought I was a shoe in for the varsity basketball team my sophomore year. Thought i was good enough, plus the head coach took a liking to me as a freshman based on basketball and being his favorite math student. Showed up to tryouts not in shape. Never ran that much in my life and in scrimmage situations and in drills, I was dragging ass, was shooting poor, getting killed on defense, etc. Got cut from varsity, so obviously went to JV. I was a dumbass and later that week had the nerve to ask him what I needed to work on. Found out real quick that he knew what I could do, but a player who doesnt even take the time to work hard to get in shape has no spot on his roster. He wasnt nice about it either. Ive never gone into a big test, job interview, or work project since without being more prepared than everyone else. if theres a hint hint nudge nudge call from a superior asking me to apply for a promotion, I still make sure I prepare and interview better than anyone else. That experience/coach alone is singlehandedly the most responsible for my work ethic. Big life lessons in sports
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