Apparently...I'm in trouble....
The following is something I said on the radio.....
Is it just me or has everyone been worrying all week about Anna?
On Friday morning, we took a teary call on the air from a Sunshine Coast Mum…
Last weekend…one of Anna’s teenagers, with a little too much time on his hands had got together with a mate and they had lit aerosol cans…they burned themselves…but were lucky not to be more seriously injured.
Anna was crying because she normally had her boys in soccer each year…between a couple of training sessions and a game she knows it’s a great use of her kids time…
But this year soccer was too expensive…around 170 dollars per boy…before uniforms and boots and travel costs…
The good news is, a guy called Chris heard Anna’s call and came to the rescue….he said
I’m feeling a little of Anna’s pain too…I’m a little embarrassed about this, because we’re a two income family…and I know we’re not poor…but this term our girls are out of swimming and gymnastics because we just didn’t have cash…
I absolutely love those two sports, I think my girls get so much out of them….I hate the fact we’ve been forced into a term off…
But netball this year was almost $200 dollars each…200 dollars…I swear when milli started netball five years ago it was just 90 dollars…I’m sure of it…
And do you know what really annoys me….its the government ads on tv and on radio about that red couch…
How much money did the government spend getting that couch to jump around the kids lounge room….
Couldn’t that be better spent subsidising kids sport? On Friday a caller told Mark that with little athletics…almost half the registration fee goes back to the governing body…that makes me so angry I want to spit…
I love netball…but I am in no mood to fund the Australian netball team…I’m flat out taking care of my own family thanks very much…
We all want our kids off the couch…busy kids are happier, fitter, their more engaged in their community and ultimately I think they’re easier to parent.
There’s got to be a way to make kids sport cheaper….and a more practical way to spend tax payers money than a jumping couch…
AND NOW I'M IN TROUBLE APPARENTLY..... Sporting organisations are cross because they think I was having a go at them.... well I promise you I wasn't...I am sure you are doing your best to keep costs down...but life is very bloody expensive for families...and I think something should change...less conversations about why our children are so damn fat, and more practical help for families to get them out and active. That's all I'm saying....and I don't apologise for it.
Is it just me or has everyone been worrying all week about Anna?
On Friday morning, we took a teary call on the air from a Sunshine Coast Mum…
Last weekend…one of Anna’s teenagers, with a little too much time on his hands had got together with a mate and they had lit aerosol cans…they burned themselves…but were lucky not to be more seriously injured.
Anna was crying because she normally had her boys in soccer each year…between a couple of training sessions and a game she knows it’s a great use of her kids time…
But this year soccer was too expensive…around 170 dollars per boy…before uniforms and boots and travel costs…
The good news is, a guy called Chris heard Anna’s call and came to the rescue….he said
I’m feeling a little of Anna’s pain too…I’m a little embarrassed about this, because we’re a two income family…and I know we’re not poor…but this term our girls are out of swimming and gymnastics because we just didn’t have cash…
I absolutely love those two sports, I think my girls get so much out of them….I hate the fact we’ve been forced into a term off…
But netball this year was almost $200 dollars each…200 dollars…I swear when milli started netball five years ago it was just 90 dollars…I’m sure of it…
And do you know what really annoys me….its the government ads on tv and on radio about that red couch…
How much money did the government spend getting that couch to jump around the kids lounge room….
Couldn’t that be better spent subsidising kids sport? On Friday a caller told Mark that with little athletics…almost half the registration fee goes back to the governing body…that makes me so angry I want to spit…
I love netball…but I am in no mood to fund the Australian netball team…I’m flat out taking care of my own family thanks very much…
We all want our kids off the couch…busy kids are happier, fitter, their more engaged in their community and ultimately I think they’re easier to parent.
There’s got to be a way to make kids sport cheaper….and a more practical way to spend tax payers money than a jumping couch…
AND NOW I'M IN TROUBLE APPARENTLY..... Sporting organisations are cross because they think I was having a go at them.... well I promise you I wasn't...I am sure you are doing your best to keep costs down...but life is very bloody expensive for families...and I think something should change...less conversations about why our children are so damn fat, and more practical help for families to get them out and active. That's all I'm saying....and I don't apologise for it.
2 Comments:
Hey, I like your line of argument but could you take a moment out for the couch potato. When I was a kid I could watch the English premier League matches of the day on Friday night ABC, Saturday morning I could watch World Championship Wrestling (I think it was on TEN), at lunchtime I could watch a pre-match footy show that actually talked about football after which I could channel surf between ABC and Seven to watch Rugby League and Aussie Rules respectively. Sunday was the day of rest but I could still fit in the Rugby League match of the day before the Sunday roast left-overs were dished up for dinner. Oh, and any test match in any sport took priority on the respective channels (that included netball).
What happened?
Answer : we were hoodwinked. Corporations realised product development was out of fashion. It was simpler, cheaper and more efficient to find a product we were actually using, one “we” actually developed (Junior sport fostered). They then proceeded to find some administrators who thought they actually owned the product, pandered to their egos, even offered them a slice of the action by offering them high paying jobs in the corporation who then proceeded sell something that wasn’t theirs to sell in the first place. Now the old bloke marking the lines at your son’s rugby doesn’t know it but he’s probably working for one of the biggest corporations in the world – he just doesn’t know it because Wendell’s probably taking home his pay (sucks doesn’t it).
Any way, where was I, Ah yeh bloody couch potatoing is getting expensive too. I’ve had to give up wrestling (WWF) because it was giving me stress head aches. I was lying awake at night worrying about how I was going to pay for it.
I’m seriously thinking about getting off the couch and going down to the local. Local sport that is.
Yours Truly
Mate Gitoo
All so true..honestly we would give our kids the world and we go without ourselves to achieve this...they continue with their sports and interests and we put our own needs aside becasue we just can't afford it! I have a 15 year old and a 3 year old....i wonder how much registration fees, training fees, uniforms etc will be by the time my 3 year old reaches 15!!! And don't start me on the cost of school uniforms, school packs etc!!
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