Raising Asperger's Kids: Parenting......An Olympic Moment

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Parenting......An Olympic Moment

If you have been watching the Olympics, you probably have seen this clip of the USA's Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman's very enthusiastic parents watching her routine on the uneven bars.....

Boy can we all relate!

Can you imagine the video of these parents if Aly wins a medal!

Meanwhile here is Aly's floor exercise routine which landed her in the indiviudal all around competition in London. Notice the music she uses is Hava Nagila. When asked why she chose that music she replied, "she is proud to be using the Jewish song because there aren’t too many Jewish elites {athletes} out there.”

On an interesting note, the Wall Street Journal just ran an article how Hava Nagila is not cool enough for some Jews anymore...seems Aly has more to teach the world than just about perseverance, dedication and sportsmanship...pride in both heritage and country comes to mind too.

On the other hand, here is a short history of Hava Nagila also from The Wall Street Journal:

Until next time,

Elise

3 comments:

Jim ReeveJuly 31, 2012 at 6:23 PM
Congrats to all Americans and their performances. And Canada also won our second medal in synchronized diving. Go Canada.
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trishpipJuly 31, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Haha, I watched Aly's parents in that scene during the games a few days ago and I thought - "Wow, they are so Boston!" I could just picture them at a Red Sox game - so I looked her up online and sure enough she's from Needham, MA. There's a particular kind of involved parenting happening there! I would be more like the mother who covers her face during the competition because I'm so worried that I can't even look.
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WoS aka hubby: Wise Old Sage. Name given to the husband by the boys..as opposed to me whom they just refer to as a pain in the tuchas

HSB aka highschoolboy: my younger son who is now a high school graduate.

CM1 aka collegeman: this is a moniker for my oldest who is a college graduate. We are calling him collegeman1 because his brother is collegeman2. However, CM1 is starting a masters graduate program this fall and will now, from 5/18/13, be referred to as Mr. GS or Mr. Graduate Student.

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