Does your kid subscribe to hsbbw?

My kid never did. My job was research and gathering information. His was playing baseball. 

He did, however, get sick of hearing me say — the people on the high school parents web site say — and proceed to share wisdom.

My son never looked here. My daughter did find me on a softball site. She asked if I was a certain poster. I asked why. She said the posts are exactly what I say as a coach. 

Nope. They think I'm crazy to spend time on here and bring up stuff at dinner time.  I tell them the feelings mutual about Fortnite or Apex or whatever the hell the flavor of the gaming month is.

smokeminside posted:

Nope. They think I'm crazy to spend time on here and bring up stuff at dinner time.  I tell them the feelings mutual about Fortnite or Apex or whatever the hell the flavor of the gaming month is.

I’m with you smoke! Wife and son make fun of me all the time for being on here, but in the2 1/2 years since my son committed I’ve met an awful lot of good people who have helped me learn how all this works before we get there. Always good to go in “eyes wide open”

No, my son(s) never subscribed or considered HSBBWeb.  Frankly, I think it worked best this way for us especially my oldest son who really started focusing on academics and baseball from the minute he started high school.  I lurked here many years before joining.   My oldest is a very driven individual and in his mind he couldn't be bothered with what other people (ie...parents) think or say...he is going to do things his way.  As his father, I can temper his head strong ways with facts.   He will listen to facts, and HSBBWeb has plenty of facts that helped us navigate a 20 month recruiting process across traditional D1s, D1 Ivy, D1 Patriot, and D3 schools. 

He would always ask where did I get this information, and it was usually a link a HSBBWeb poster shared,  information posted by a particular school, or first-hand information shared by a HSBBWeb poster that had inside information.    There were plenty of eye rolls from my oldest as well as my wife, but after 29 years of marriage I'm used to it.  ;-)

My son never subscribed. Sometimes he would ask me where I get my info, and I told him. I never told him any detail about my profile. 

He must have been on here or D3boards.com recently though. We were at Dinner, with the family. Two boys had their Girls Friends there. We started talking about wrestling and Baseball. One of the girls asked how I knew so much about D3, as she played D3 sports as well. One of my sons spoke up, "Don't up know, he is Bishopleftiesdad on the internet. I had never mentioned my profile name. Then they went on about how I know about Smoking Meat and some more obscure topics. They said it is just the way he is, when something interest him he wont leave it alone until he has exhausted all his resources or gets bored. 

Hmm....that's a good question.  I'm gonna assume he has never been on here....or knew I was.  I'd think that at some point during his recruitment it would have come up.  I think at times I mentioned things like "I read this on a website" or "someone else did it this way", but I'm fairly certain it never came up as to what website it was.   I know some kids have posted here...and I think it's great that if they don't have someone helping them with recruiting questions that they can come on here and get some help on their own.

I love that post, BLD!

way off topic, but I’ve gotten to the point where dinners with my sons and their girlfriends are among  my very favorite things to do. 

smokeminside posted:

I love that post, BLD!

way off topic, but I’ve gotten to the point where dinners with my sons and their girlfriends are among  my very favorite things to do. 

Yup, us too. One son is getting ready to move to Charlotte NC, at the end of June/july. I miss those dinners already. I tried to wring a promise out of him to call his mother, every week. Yeah his mother...,sniff. NM I don't want to talk about it....

No, this is my forum to help me with research and manage this crazy journey.  His responsibility is to bigger, stronger, faster, better.  We do the school list together and will start to narrow it down this summer.  

The community has been a huge help in answering questions from prior or current experience.  Glad I joined.  Thanks to all who contribute.

I coached my daughter through 18u Gold. I coached my son through 16u. My son once commented about me being online. 

Praphrasing ...

“i don’t need to go online to get the same crap I have to listen to at home and in the dugout.”

i had his respect. He was just at an age he wasn’t going to admit it.