<VV> Timing, was: CORSA CONVENTION / FLORIDA HEAT

[Bryan Blackwell]

Hi Lon,

I would make that minimum age 50 - I know a lot of parents who are  
within a couple years of my age (I'm 46 and my assistant coaches this  
spring were both older than me), and my youngest son won't graduate  
high school until I'm 55.  People often seem to think of "parents" as  
"parents of toddlers or babies".  You can't legally go on vacation  
and leave your kids behind until they're 18, and if they weren't born  
until you're over 25 (very common today), that means you're over 40  
when they're teenagers.  BTW, that's another reason why you don't see  
as many kids at a convention as are out there.  Our kids come with us  
to conventions, but now they get their own room keys and come and go  
as they please, more or less.  Just because there aren't a bunch of  
20 or 30 somethings pushing strollers doesn't mean there aren't  
parents or their kids around.

That all said, I can see a number of upsides to a non-summer  
convention.  Question is, who will host it?  If a group of folks  
really feels this strongly about it, get your club to submit a  
convention bid.

--Bryan

On Oct 20, 2008, at 6:43 PM, corvairs wrote:

>         If the convention does not make it convenient for kids to  
> attend
> (those things usually owned by 40 and under people) then we will deter
> younger members from participating.