Footie

There has been much discussion about team sport and individual sport and extracurricular activities around here just lately. I have maintained right along that until the boys are old enough to pick a sport and continue to want to do it for more than, oh, ten minutes, I will be happy to oblige and not until then.

Dearly Beloved, however, has taken matters into his own hands and has signed up both boys for football, er, soccer.

He did not of course ask any trivial questions while doing so, such as, When is practice or How competitive a team is this exactly or When are the games or Do they know anyone on this team. He was not even really clear on What's the age range for each team. He did ask What does it cost, he hasn't lost his passport just yet, but was not at all clear about whether signing up two at once made any difference in terms of the cost.

I don't expect the kids will care, they will just get to go kick the ball around twice a week and will have a good time, I have no doubt. But I do note certain, er, gender differences in approach.