Seth Hedman

Edit: I am not a parent and do not intend this to be telling any parent they are doing it wrong. This is intended as a slightly tongue in cheek look at Santa by combining my experience working with kids for 3 years and 4 years with college students. These are the reasons for what my approach to my kids will be, as far as it applies to your current or future kids, take it for what it is. I'm also not trying to get rid of fun, just give a little context. Read through to the end and you'll see. Merry Christmas :) Kids will believe anything.  I worked at Boys & Girls Club for close to three years, mostly with 6-7 year olds, and sometimes the staff just couldn't resist the humor from a little white lie.  For example, one time a hilarious 6 year old we all loved, we'll call him Randy, asked a staff member what they were doing that day.  The staff answered, "We're going on a field trip."  "We're going to the future!?" Randy replied.  The tem...

Football is Fun My first memory of football is hanging out next to my brother's practices, a field tucked deep into the fall pine forests of Derry, New Hampshire.  It was right by a little round-a-bout with a baseball card store.  If you ventured far enough out into the woods away from the field, you would come upon a quiet lake. But you could never actually see it.  Whenever you would get just close enough to smell and hear the water, it would get drowned out by the yells from mom to come back.  I got a lot of poison ivy in those woods, playing catch with a green and yellow Brett Favre football I had found one day.  The dead pine needles that blanketed the ground during fall gave the whole place a mystical feeling.  It was there, playing for the Youngsville Hawks, between the trees and near the water, that I fell in love with football. At that time I was just finishing being home schooled and I was a year young for my grade but taller than everyone...