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AFTER YEARS OF WATCHING HER SON KALE, 11, scramble for the soccer ball, Paige Brodie had an epiphany one day. "We spend so much time sitting on our butts watching these games," she thought, "we should play ourselves." With that, the Sherborn, Mass., mother of three organized a moms' team and became a new kind of soccer mom--one who plays in her own league...
Brodie, 43, and her teammates are part of a burgeoning trend of moms taking up their children's sports. At the John Smith Sports Center, where Brodie plays, the number of mothers' teams has shot up since 2000 from four to 14, including eight that cater to soccer novices. And it isn't just soccer: the International Society of Skateboarding Moms, for example, founded in 2004 by Barb Odanaka, author of Skateboard Mom, boasts 350 members. From kayaking to hockey to wall climbing, mothers are imitating their kids...
Playing the same sport your child does, the women agree, helps you better understand your kid's challenges. "I used to stand on the sidelines and yell, 'Run, run, run!'" says Lisa Alpert, 43, who plays on the Sherborn soccer team. "Now I know," she admits sheepishly, "how hard it is to keep running...
...which may or may not make him funny, but the fact of the poll's existence sure is. Talk about the politicization of comedy. Next we'll get focus groups and image consultants ("Those clown shoes need to be three inches longer if you want to bring in the soccer moms") and Joe Klein will write a book about how no one does improv anymore...
...friends were signing up for soccer, because soccer was a big thing,” he says. “And I was literally just about to sign up for soccer, and one of my friends was like ‘Hey, why don’t you try football? You’re kind of big, [and] my brother’s all big and he plays and they have fun.’ Basically, it was just a random moment that happened...