The nurse and I have been working together. We're also trying to get more physical time for the kids.

They were just clamoring for attention. At one time, I had six kids hanging on me. I was trying to walk with all these kids on me. I enjoyed that. Those kids needed attention.

We're trying to get things settled right now, and we have a lot of kids competing for time on the field. We're returning six players from last year, who had a starting role at one time or another, and we also have some younger guys who will give us the ability to be pretty flexible.

She puts in a lot of time and effort to tell parents what their kids will be doing in school so they can work on things together.

I try to tell the kids, I'm not trying to run away from where I came from,

That extra year, the kids need it. Their brain hasn't matured. Sometimes I relate this to trying to pour a gallon bottle of milk into a pint and it just overflows -- they can't take in all that information.