When Practice Becomes Training

Having been an avid mother of a baton twirler, I completely “get” the concept of when any kind of team practice turns into “training” … it’s when hundreds of dollars have been spent.  Or in our case after several years of baton, thousands of dollars. Busy Mom brings up the subject while talking about what to feed the family,

We will, however feed Busy D. an actual meal since he had soccer practice tonight.

I mean “training”.

It seems that after the first several hundred dollars (travel soccer), you have “training” instead of “practice”.

By the way, this is the first Fall in five years that my daughter hasn’t been up to her eyeballs in baton.  It’s a wonderful sense of freedom that we are experiencing in our household these days.