That's a new one.

So, at the end of a long day, I sit down with Spencer on the couch as he watches an old episode of the Jetsons.  I notice that a band is playing on the show and the following conversation takes place:

Me:  Spencer, do you think you might want to learn to play a musical instrument?

Spencer:  No.

Me:  No?  Wouldn't it be fun to be a musician and be able to play the songs you like to listen to?

Spencer:  (Whining) No, I already know  what I want to be.

Me:  You do?  What?

Spencer:  I want to be a coach.

Me:  A coach?  A coach of what?  A sport?  Or do you want to teach something?

Spencer:  Umm.......a tennis coach.

Me:  A tennis coach, huh?  Okay.  (Shared smile between my wife and me.)

In all the times I've heard a child asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, the standard replies are always something along the lines of police officer, astronaut, movie star, fireman, baseball player, singer, etc.   I've never heard anyone say they wanted to be a coach.   Maybe it's because he has inherited his parents' occupational tendencies toward teaching and guiding people, or maybe it's because he just resumed the tennis lessons he enjoys so much.  Regardless of the reason, thank you Spencer for the totally original answer and the priceless memory.  Keep 'em coming.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Given the Palin women's penchants for financial opportunism and unusual child names, maybe the next offspring to come out that family could be named "Cha-Ching Palin".

In 2009, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol joined a teen pregnancy prevention nonprofit called the Candie’s Foundation. Today, the Associated Press reported that the Candie’s Foundation released its 2009 tax information, revealing that Bristol was paid a salary of $262,500.

But a closer examination of the tax form by ThinkProgress shows that the group disbursed only $35,000 in grants to actual teen pregnancy health and counseling clinics: $25,000 to the Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center and $10,000 to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

 

Thus, the nonprofit paid Bristol over seven times what it paid to teen pregnancy prevention groups.