OT: Proud Dad Moments

My son (9) competed in his first ever team sport (ultimate) game. He hates competition so this was a huge milestone for him. And he loved it! Finally we can share in a sport. 

I’m sure both the OP and his son are good people, and I know what it’s like to be a proud father, but I’m wondering how the message board police, who are always so quick to jump on posts they deem unworthy, feel about this one?

My dad got my brother and I a gag gift for Xmas - paperback of "everything great about Ohio state football".  It's 175 blank pages

My 6yo went back to school and told everyone - EVERYONE students, teachers, administrators about this book and how hilarious it was because (as he tells it) "there is nothing great about Ohio state football, right dad?"

Made me proud.

I've got a freshman and senior at Michigan.  In other words, the same ages as the players on the team.  

I'm continually surprised at the level of vitriol and anger that is seen on this blog after a bad loss.

While I'm certainly a proud grad and a passionate fan, my feeling is that life has too many inherent frustrations to get so worked up over what a bunch of 18-22 year olds are doing on a basketball court, football field, etc.

This was a flawed team with too much youth at key positions.  After the team lost Shannon and then Llewellyn to injury and thus was too young at the 1, 2 and 3 (the players who really drive a team's engine), you get what we saw.  Dug and Kobe both progressed significantly over the course of the season;  I hope Kobe and Jett come back and we get the chance to see what a more experienced version of this roster might look like...but I don't think it's going to happen.  

Just like I never wavered in my support of Harbaugh when everyone was losing their shit two years ago, I'm still supportive of Coach Howard.

Go Blue! 

I wonder if Juwan will post?

/too soon?

I have a lot of proud dad moments. My proudest dad moment was when my Buckeye brother in law told my 4year old daughter to say “Go Bucks” and she replied “NEVER!”

I clicked on this expecting to see some trolling post a sad loss...and was thrilled to see none!

Perhaps it's the quality of the posts. A few very humorous, a few very poignant and all of them very pride worthy. 

Perhaps it's the quality of the posters, good supportive Michigan men and women. 

But probably it's these amazing kids. Evolution is a thing!

My oldest started a non profit organization when she was 16. It supports education for young orphaned girls in Peru. She's 33 now and still keeps it going while holding down a full time job and raising 2 children of her own. 

Fun to read all these feel good stories from so many great people.

Go Blue!

My daughter is 6 and every new thing she learns how to do is a proud Dad moment for me. 

We just did our first Daddy Daughter dance and to watch how her and her friends interacted was beautiful. 

I don't want to brag but my wife and I are raising a good egg

Nice job (and nice tele too)!

My 8, 12 and 13 year old boys voted to name our new puppy JJ.

Proud (sports) mom here. My son has always been extremely competitive starting at the age of 4 and had a hard time managing his emotions. Most coaches weren't great at handling that and he was shut out of opportunities because of it. In high school, he realized that he'd need to figure out a way to manage the outbursts so he brought a little vial of essential lavender oil with him in his bag and he'd sniff it between innings (his idea). I was sure he'd be mocked but the opposite happened: his teammates loved it and chalked it up to him being one of those quirky pitchers. He's always been unique and does things his way, and now works in professional baseball. And not to be outdone by my son, my daughter played varsity softball all four years in high school as the short stop and lead off batter and in her senior season, hit .551 and tied the school record with 9 home runs. My husband and I, both sports fans, count our lucky stars that our kids gave us many years of great games and all the emotional ups and downs that go with. It was a fantastic ride. 

Proud Dads…. 
 

I have a 10 year special needs son.  We are going to care for him until we are dead.  There will be no empty nest.  I love him dearly.  He is my boy.  
 

When he’s focused, this little shit absolutely kicks my ass at MarioKart. Its unreal.  

blessed with lots of kids, lots of sports and pleasant memories, so i will only mention the most recent.  youngest daughter loves hoops like her 5 brothers love football, and her motor is pretty much non-stop.   but it was her play during the team's second playoff game a couple of weeks ago that was so cool.  she was the leading scorer, was up and down the court, assists, rebounds, loose balls, all of that, and probably her best game in high school.  what made it special though was that she started throwing up hours before the game, threw up on the bus on the way to the game, and we drove her home after the game with a big garbage bag in her lap so she could throw up.  she was so sick for the next two days. 

i told her that sports is just character training for the important stuff in life, and that i was so proud of her focus, discipline, effort and leadership out there despite feeling like absolute manure.  

About a year ago when my daughter was just about 3, she said we should listen to an LP from the vinyl collection. So I said she could pick one out. She randomly picked out Cryptopsy, which is a brilliant technical death metal band from Quebec, and I warned her that she might not like it. She said it was OK so we put it on. She liked it enough to listen to an entire side of the record before losing interest, though I think she was kind of puzzled by it. Now she is super into with these heavy metal dinosaur songs from this Canadian outfit called Howdytoons. Proud moments for sure \m/

My son received his blood stripe and brown belt in the US Marines in the last 2 weeks....hell yeah 

My son is working on his PhD at Utah University (go Utes) in the biological chemistry department (which is associated with the medical school) and my daughter runs a restaurant at age 22. She’s the second youngest person there and is everyone’s boss.

i am a proud dad every day for the last 25 and a half years 

Son closed out and got the W in an upset victory against a rival HS in a hostile environment in a state playoff game as a 15 year old sophomore.  He recently committed to pitch at a D3 University.  

Today is my mother-in-law’s 94th birthday. When my two adult children learned that I would be at their grandmother’s this week, they each separately decided to rearrange their busy lives to also be here today. My son flew in late late Thursday night to spend 36 hours with his Nana, and today my daughter drove nine hours to be here for 18 before driving back home tomorrow. No great accomplishment for either of them, but definitely a proud Dad weekend, knowing that I and especially their late mother raised them right. Oh, and we kept both visits a surprise for Nana. Best 94th birthday presents (and presence) ever!

My son got an undergrad and Masters degrees from Michigan after not getting into Michigan directly out of High School. 

Older son is on his third career: mismatched skill requirements for first one (film making), abusive employer in second one (customer service), followed by a passing 8 week flirtation (law) where we took a mulligan, then a serious dive into finance/accounting which is turning into a very positive path.

Four weeks at first job in current career, kid gets fired by phone call at home after he started recognizing "troubling transactions" and asked a few innocent, simple questions. He's kicked a hornets nest and is stunned. He soon finds another entry level position with a century old bank and he's finally crushing it, getting kudos. And he's *finally happy*; he's properly "launched".

Dad is now at peace and hugely proud of the boy's refusal to give up.

My 7 year old earned his grey belt in BJJ. it’s something he has worked extremely hard at. He has sensory processing disorder, which I think is considered part of the autism spectrum. SPD makes it extremely hard for him to stay focused, quiet and engaged over the course of a 45 minute class. 
 

I’m extremely proud of his accomplishments. 

My middle school daughter got to travel and play with the high school band yesterday as the high school played for girl’s basketball championship at the Breslin center. That was pretty cool, but she told me she refused to buy a pop because it came in a spartan cup and instead opted for a bottle of water. 

This is all great stuff. I love reading all these nice things about you all. It should be at once a week features during off-topic season.