Race Day

Pine wood...

Now for years the cub scouts and boyscout's have been running there pine wood durbey races there are really three kinds of races now a days, the cars which are the most populer and old then they have the boats and finlly the air plane ones, two weeks ago lows start to have a clink at there store that running about 2hours to show kids how to build there cars, really it's just a long video and them trying to show you how to build a car using a dermail mulitiy tool, not really much on what they are doing and why they are doing it and no real question time on the thing to ask how you doing thing, you just got to kind of butt in and ask a question as they go along, it really wasn't set up all that great if you ask me, The guy running it really didn't seam to know what he was trying to show/do to teach these kids there who wanted to learn how to make there car faster and better. To me it should have been a little more hands on and helping to put a car together so kids could learn and do what they needed before there races which are coming up. For me that would be tomorrow afternoon, so I'm working the last little bit on my car to get it wrong for the race, you small things like paint, weights and wheels nothing to big before a race, should be done some time tonight, but it's not my car I really want to make sure that get done it's my son's he's is the more importen one, because it racing is for him and I want him to do well, last year his car was put together in a really big hurry so it didn't come out just right, this year we have taken a little bit more time and it's come out almost right he likes it, but I think the parents take/put to much in to it. I think a lot of people put way to much into it and it takes away from the fun of building the car. In one case I hear that a rocket scincetaist was desinging and help buiulding his kids car so he would win every year. To me that is taking things just a little to far, I mean the kids are there to learn to build a race themselves and I think a lot of parents are taking that away from them but trying to win the race and not leting the kids have fun. Let them degain what ever they want and cut it out who cares if it runs fast or wins as long as the kids have run making it which is the whole point of the thing. Ok help out my sanding down the wheel and clearing the bures on the axles but let the kids paint it the way they want and make it they want the more flows in the car the better because it shows that the kids made it and are proud of what they made, yeah you can get a few things to help them and make sure they want to put them on as you go, but by making it all about the race you take away from the fun of making something for themself. It always fun to win but it's better to have a good time and make something you like and can be proud of when you race it against the other scouts. Sometimes I think it's the parents that want to much out of the race then the kids do and I have seen cars that are clearly made by the parent and not the kid and the kid has to run it as his own. Yeah I helped my son build his, but everything that was done to the car from the design of it to the color to the weights being added were all done with his ok and him doing it, He did some of the cutting and I did the really hard stuff, he sanded it as much as he could and we went over it together to make sure it was good and smooth,. He picked the paint color and primed and painted it himself, now my wife painted the guy on top, but he helped glue it on and picked the colors he wanted for him, he put on most of the decales for the race and in the morning we will finish up with the wheels and gaurds and he will be all set to race later that afternoon, were as for me I'll be lucky to be finished painting and get my weights on tonight, but you know Like I said it's all in the fun of building the crazy thing and that is what we are having if he win or even places cool, if we don't well at least we had fun making it together the three of us, My wife helped out a lot more then I did but in the end he did a lot of the work himself and it was fun, so parent let the kids go and have fun and kids not make to much out of it it's a race for fun and there is nothing better then having the even even thought we all like to win from time to time.. so let's go have some fun and race the afternoon away..

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