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e first time my sweetheart took me over to a local schoolyard to launch a small rock- et, I felt very weird counting down, kind of like a kid, with just the two of us there, but that's what you do. Go to a launch, possibly aer securing a sitter for the kids if they're of the age where there is need for an adult just to keep them safe and out of trouble. at way you can focus on the fun going on. If you have older kids, involved in the hobby themselves, of course you want to go, to watch them. e thing about rock- etry that's different from soccer, and many other things kids do, is that there's no rea- son you can't join in. When I began my journey as a "ballet mom," I was going into terra incognita, as I had never danced as a kid. Horse shows had been more my thing when I was that age. At one point I took a dare from an- other mom and we both enrolled in the adult beginner ballet class. It was fun and was important in ways I can hardly begin to describe when, years later, I was able to speak the language and to understand a bit of what my teens were going through as their journey into dance continued. If you go into rocketry along with your kids, you will be so much more supportive of 26 MAY/JUNE 2024 SPORT ROCKETRY this crazy hobby, if only by knowing what they're talking about. Of course, you might have doubts about whether or not you're suited to the hobby. Let me ask you: can you whip out a cos- tume for the school play? How about turn- ing out a batch of beautiful Christmas cookies? Do you enjoy painting in your spare time? Organizing the kid's activities? Ceramics? Jewelry making? Planning the family vacation? Quilting? Trimming the horse's hooves? If you enjoy any of these things, you likely have the skills. It went the other way for us this past Christmas sea- Avis waving from Tri-Cities flight line with Big Bertha on pad. Photo by Bernard Cawley. www.siriusrocketry.com motors - chutes - tools - adhesives - parts - great kits from the finest manufacturers - and so much more in our secure online store! It's now time to have some serious fun with rocketry, visit us today! The Sirius Rocketry Eradicator is the newest kit in our Transition Series of kits, rockets that fly comfortably on F & G motors and are built to fly on an H when you're ready for your level one! From model to High Power, we're serious about rocketry! Transition into fun! son while Bernard got involved briefly in a small gingerbread house. At one point, while he was gently pressing the roof pan- els into proper alignment, he declared that it "was just a scale model of a house." Skills do transfer. Your skills will transfer. Transferable skills include: reading and following directions, knowing when to depart from the directions (your sweet- heart can help with this at first), cutting out from a pattern, gluing carefully, using spray paint or other finishes, going through a check-list before flight, as you would be- fore loading up for a school field trip, and,