If we had a dollar for every pair of tennis shoes or tennis lesson, every bassoon or piano lesson, model airplane or soccer lesson, or for every summer or after school program in which he participated, we could afford a summer cottage in a cool climate.
Always remind them to keep practicing at the end of the soccer lesson, preferably tell them to practice more on what they're struggling with.
About a month ago, two underage Vietnamese asylum seekers swapped high school and soccer lessons for a detention centre in Darwin.
The organization helps its young beneficiaries gain self-esteem and leadership skills through art classes and soccer lessons and also runs an innovative trafficking prevention program that teaches adolescent girls how to safely use the Internet, email and social media.
I consulted my friend Fran, a child psychologist, who pointed out that if Jacob were demanding soccer lessons with such unrelenting fervor I would probably let him play.
Walk across the newly restored 103rd Street footbridge from Manhattan to see Go With the Flow, a morning of live music by the Mariachi Academy of New York, tennis and soccer lessons for the children, arts activities and more (June 2, 10 a.m. to noon, randallsisland.org; free).
I assumed that Shepherd would warm to his soccer lessons the next time around.
When my son, Shepherd, was 3 years old, he and his twin brother, Beau, took soccer lessons for the first time.
While his schoolmates were taking swimming or soccer lessons, Mr. Parisot was writing to all the descendants of Napoleon's generals to ask about their ancestors' battles.
