This chapter is for the hockey families who have decided to play Major Junior “A” hockey. I’m going to give your family different example of land-parent situations that your son could run into during this MJ “A” hockey career. As parents it’s very important that you know how and why fans become land-parents of MJ “A” hockey players.
Before these people became land-parents of hockey players, they were fans of MJ “A” hockey. One day these fans decided that it would be nice to take in a MJ “A” hockey player. Within days, these fans became land-parents of a new hockey player. As parents, you should have a thousand questions by now. Here’s a few that come to my mind right away.
What kind of family would want an eighteen or nineteen year old man living under the same roof as their two teenage daughters? Anyone can see that there could be major problems in this land-parents household in the near future.
Remember these are just examples of what could happen to you son at his land-parent’s home during the hockey season. Let’s say your son is in his draft year and there’s talk that your son could go in the first round of next year’s NHL draft. Your son’s land-parents are vacationing down in Florida during the March break and your son in the land-parents daughter started sleeping together. Going one step further with this example, can you imagine if the land-parents sixteen year old daughter gets pregnant? What could also happen next is the land-parents sue your eighteen year old son for sleeping with his underage daughter. If this happens, your son’s career will be over before it even began! Trust me when I say this, this happens all the time in MJ “A” hockey. NEVER let your son’s hockey team put him in a house that has teenage daughters or young mothers…. TRUST ME, DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN…. Protecting your son on and off the ice starts in his land-parent’s house.
Here’s another situation you don’t want your son in, Let’s say there’s a young couple who’s having financial problems and they couldn’t pay their monthly bills on time. One evening, this couple came up with the idea of becoming land-parents of a MJ “A” hockey player. Before we continue, MJ “A” hockey teams give land-parents a cheque for roughly $400.00 dollars a month for each hockey player that the land-parents have in their house during the hockey season.
The couple then thinks, why not house three hockey players for $1,200.00 a month? The couple decides that three hockey players will live in their basement of their home. The couple calls the hockey team and tells them they have room for three hockey players. By the end of the week this young couple gets three new hockey players in their basement and a cheque of $1,200.00 dollars with their name on it.
A day later, that $1,200.00 dollar cheque went to the land-parents visa card company and there wasn’t enough food in the fridge each day to feed these three hockey players. The players tell the coach that there’s never enough food in the house. The coach tells the boys, hang in there the team will start looking for new land-parents for you guys…. 90 percent of the time hockey players get left in these houses because there’s a shortage of land-parents in their towns. VERY COMMON PROBLEM IN MJ”A” HOCKEY.
Ask yourself this question, how many land-parents in MJ “A” hockey really are looking out for your son’s best interests? Expect problems between your son and his land-parents. Be ready for anything and everything while your son is living with total strangers during the hockey season. While your family is meeting your son’s assigned land-parents for the first time, make sure your family’s questions are answered to your satisfaction. If for any reason during your family’s first visit meeting your son’s new assigned land-parents. If you feel that this particular home isn’t the right home for your son, then speak up right away and tell the team.
Here’s another situation your son could run into during the hockey season. At the start of the hockey season when your son first met his new land-parents. Both your son and his land-parents seemed as if they would get along well during the hockey season. But three months into the hockey season both your son and his land-parents are at each other’s throats. Maybe it’s your son who can’t stand his land-parents cooking. There could be a thousand different reasons why hockey players and their land-parents can’t get along during the hockey season.
If your son’s land-parents situation can’t correct itself, it will come to a point in the house that your son will be living in his bedroom. Or your son will go out and get a girlfriend in town, so he can spend his time over at her house. When this situation occurs between the hockey player and his land-parents during the hockey season, it’s a tough situation for everyone involved. Both parties will be trying to save face around the rink and town blaming their current housing problems on the other person.
It will come to a point where the hockey team will take the hockey player out of the land-parent’s home. Once again, if there’s a disturbance during the hockey season NHL Scouts want to know who’s to blame for this….. Yes, coaches will tell NHL Scouts about your son’s Land-parent situation. No Good…. for your son…. There’s never a winner when it comes to a hockey player who needs new land-parents during the hockey season. Because of this disturbance, both land-parent and your son’s credibility in the hockey world will be tarnished.
As parents of a young hockey player new to MJ “A” hockey, here’s some good advice. It’s a good idea to stay away from seasoned land-parents who have billeted MJ “A” hockey players in the past. My advice to your family would be to try and find potential land-parents who have never had a hockey player before. When you can find land-parents in MJA that are new to billeting hockey players, everything is new to both the land-parents and the hockey player. There aren’t any previous expectations from past hockey players that have lived in the same house.
New land-parents and your son will be learning together as they go during the hockey season. Most of the time, new land-parents and their hockey players become lifelong friends…( Teddy and Darlene Micher were my Kitchener Land-Parents, Teddy was in my wedding party and is the God Father to my first son Jordan… I was their first player, I love it there…. Thank you guys.)
Getting back to business, lol’s. Here’s another reason why it’s in your son’s best interest to find new land-parents, who have never had a hockey player in the past. Let’s say, for example for whatever reason both your son and his land-parents don’t see eye during the hockey season. Nine times out of ten the land parents don’t want another hockey player in their home ever again.
There personal experiences with that particular MJ ”A” hockey player left such a bad taste in their mouths that the family stops going to hockey games all together. When it’s the land-parents first time around, the NHL Scouts will give that particular hockey player the benefit of the doubt in this particular land-parents situation.
You have to remember no matter what the situation is in life, whatever the reason, someone will always have problems when two or more people are living together under the same roof for any length of time.
Once your son has been drafted by a MJ “A” hockey team, get in touch with your son’s agent to start setting up appointments to meet possible land-parents for the up-and-coming hockey season. Remember, the sooner you son settles into his new land-parent’s home. The more productive he’ll be during the hockey season. Your son deserves the best land-parents that MJ”A” hockey can provide. Remember protecting your son on and off the ice during his journey to the NHL is your number one priority….
( Stay Tune… More valuable hockey information to come in the near future on how to protect your son from the business side of hockey.... My hockey manual will be available to your family to invest in in the near future, just copy righting the book at this moment in time...)
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