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- From: nsmith@tms390.micro.ti.com (Neal Smith)
- Subject: Bowling for toddlers (Was Re: Things they do to make you proud)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.174701.21291@tms390.micro.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Houston
- References: <Bzzuzz.BBD@news.iastate.edu> <168CC965C.BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:47:01 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Stephanie Edelmann) writes:
-
- >My SIL and me took my stepdaughter Maya (10) and her daughter Ryan (6)
- >bowling the other day. I din't want to go at first because I figured
- >that Tatijana (2) would probably not do any good. She's been very clingy
- >lately and I could just see her getting hurt getting hit in the head by
- >a bowling ball when she runs up behind me .... (isn't it funny that you
- >always imagine the worst..) Well, Maya talked me into it anyway - she's
- >real good at that. And we _did_ have a great time. Tatijana sat there
- >the entire time and watched us. She occasionally commented on our
- >style etc. and seemed to be having a good time, too. At the very end, when
- >we had finished the second round, we still had a couple of minutes on
- >the clock (we had the lanes for 2 hours). Maya helped Tat to push a
- >ball by "herself". That just made her day - she was soooo proud.
- >For the rest of the day she kept on telling evrybody who would listen
- >about it. "And I pushed the red ball really hard - and it rolled
- >like this (imagine the arms just having a great time showing it)
- >- and it didn't hit anything".
- >
-
- My 2 year old son (well, almost 3) loves to go bowling. For a while, he
- liked it so much he would beg to go every time we passed a bowling alley
- (or any other time he saw the word "BOWL", even in a store, for instance).
- When I take him, we get the alley to provide the bumpers (at both alleys
- we go to, they are free as long as you ask for them the day before you
- want to bowl) that fill the gutters. The biggest problem, of course, is he
- doesn't always push it hard enough to get it all the way down the lane.
- If he does get it down the lane, it doesn't always set off the re-rack
- sensors, even if it returns the ball, so we usually let him have 3 or 4
- throws per frame (he gets some pretty high scores this way). He likes
- to jump up and down or run in place while the ball is rolling, then when
- (if) it gets to the pins, he says "boom!" and falls to the floor.
-
- He doesn't usually have the patience for more than one game, though.
-
- >Her last ball, by the way, didn't quite make it all the way to the pins,
- >it rolled in the gutter and came BACK to us. I didn't know that it was
- >physically possible for the ball to come back. I thought there was a slight
- >slant to the lane and the gutter.
- >
- >Stephanie
- >
-
- There should be a slant in the gutter, but not on the lane.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------
- From Neal Smith (nsmith@sassy.micro.ti.com)
- Dad to Allen (allne if he spells it), born 1/10/90
-