activities

From what I hear, children in these parts are entertained in the summer with activities involving sports. Mostly. 

My children just take swimming lessons because every needs to learn how not to drown. Plus Mark's coordination in sports might be crossed out by my severe lack of being able to do two things at once. I got mixed up twice in my eighth grade basketball career and took the ball to the wrong side of the court. Things don't look promising in that regard for my posterity.

Soccer and basketball and baseball and football and cheer-leading and table tennis and underwater basket-weaving, they all have a camp.

But, if we are preparing children to live as responsible productive, God-serving adults someday, how do soccer skills fit in? Basketball? The "teamwork" reasoning doesn't fly in my opinion unless you count that the loser kids who aren't as coordinated and skilled get to "support" their swift, coordinated teammates and gladly give up playing time so they can win and support the non-losers.

I just wonder, in my decidedly non-conformist thinking, what the advantages would be to more practical skills: gardening camp or baking camp or changing oil in the family vehicles camp. Or how about camp where kids learn how to memorize Scripture and study their Bibles?