u/Rough-Adeptness-6670

My U14 son is trying to decide between his current big club where he just missed on making the ECNL RL team and would be playing for a mediocre coach who’s experience ends and begins with coaching his kids in a high level state soccer division or moving to a mid-sized club playing N1 league with opportunities to play some EA league games and work with two great young coaches with recent D1 playing experience and a desire to grow their club. Which way would you go?

Going with the discussion flair here because I’m not necessarily looking for advice or tips and I’m not sure this qualifies as an achievement. Perhaps we need a “rant” flair.

Anyway, here it goes…I just realized that in a family of 6+ doggo, the doggo and I are the only ones in the family that aren’t ADHD (and the doggo is an asshole chihuahua/lab mix). I’m so outnumbered and the natives would have me roasting on a spit if I wasn’t still bigger than them.

I’m standing here in my kitchen trying to clean (wife lost track of time) and cook at the same time on daddy night (wife is have a much deserved evening out) and I’m having a mild panic attack cause the 13 year old is singing inappropriate rap songs and the top of his lungs, the 10 year old is freaking out about the butterflies she “birthed” because two were failures to fly and are back in the butterfly house and she clearly did something wrong, the 8 year old is screaming at me from the stairs because I asked her to pick up the family room before she could read and the 4 year old was yelling “fuck” over and over thanks to their brother’s singing, but is now crying uncontrollably because he lost dessert for not listening to me when I told him to stop swearing. Dog is scratching my calves because he wants to be fed.

Only about 14 years left until I’m at even strength with the ADHD’ers and even then I’ll just be dealing with the ADHD from afar.

Love my family but it’s days like today that make me realize why parents go crazy so often.

Rant complete, thanks for your attention to this matter.

Just throwing this out into the World Cup universe and see if I can pull out a miracle. Bought tickets to a group match in Kansas City for my son and I, but now we will be in Connecticut for June all of a sudden for a sick relative. Son is devastated that he won’t get to go to a game and I am trying daily to find some “cheap” tickets to one of the Boston games. I would be happy with with the worst seats in the stadium, just want to get him to a game given the circumstances. If anyone was planning on selling a pair or has two extra tickets they no longer need, I would love to buy them. Wish my budget wasn’t so tight, but we have a lot of expenses getting the family out to New England, plus the hit I took on the KC tickets. I have some room for more $ if necessary but trying to stay in the $300 or less range.