If you are a parent with kids aged 8-18, you are probably all-too-well aware of the latest meme/trend/fad, bottle flipping. JT Riddle Jersey .Whether you are doing pick up at soccer practice, sitting on the sidelines at games or possibly just minding your own business in the house, if there is a plastic bottle nearby with, say, a quarter of its liquid still left in it, undoubtedly your kid or their friends have picked it up, held it by its top and flicked it out, attempting to flip it so that it delivers a Simone Biles-level stick-the-landing on the floor or tabletop.The issue isnt the flip itself -- the issue is the kids compulsive attempts to successfully pull off the trick. New York Times reporter Christopher Mele succinctly and accurately described the sound: Gurgle. Thud. Crunch. Paying attention to the coach at practice? Focusing on homework? Heck, even the kid-nirvana of Netflix has seemingly seen mindshare erode to the likes of Deer Park, Gatorade or Aquafina.Credit/blame high school trend-setter Michael Senatore, whose Charlotte-area talent-show bottle-flip video from a few months ago went viral and launched this frenzy:You can lose hours (and possibly your mind) on YouTube looking up bottle-flip videos, but we might have reached Peak Bottle Flip this past Saturday night at Duke basketballs annual Countdown to Craziness, where Chase Jeter stole the show:Earlier this week, my kids relayed a fascinating development: Kids at their elementary school were buying bottles of water using their lunch-money account (financed by their parents!), spilling out three-quarters of the water, then selling bottle flip-ready toys to their fellow students for 50 cents each.While I admire their entrepreneurial zeal, I cant disagree with the schools principal, who shut down the flip economy before some mesmerized first-grader started pilfering from their familys spare-change jar.Lets be clear: The practice is, in fact, incredibly annoying. The sound. The block-out-what-else-they-should-be-paying-attention-to focus. The repetition -- if you as a parent can ignore it for more than a half-dozen tries before snapping, I salute your restraint.Are there any redeeming qualities? Well, its not screen time, so theres that. Hopefully the kids have actually consumed the water down to its requisite optimal flip level, so there is a modest health attribute to it. It is inherently social, even if it quickly devolves into battling over whose turn it is to flip. And, grade-school gray-market aside, as an activity, it is far more accessible to far more kids than, say, a travel sports team. Anyone can flip -- you dont need to be a Duke basketball player to successfully compete.To that last point, Im all for taking everyday objects or environments and turning them into play, whether its flipping a water bottle or leaping over cracks in the sidewalk or taking a piece of paper and launching into a game of paper football.So is there anything to it? Ill admit I tried it for myself:OK, this isnt not fun...Dan Shanoff writes about parenting for espnW. Connect with him on Twitter at @danshanoff or follow his sports-parenting adventures on Instagram at @danshanoff. Starlin Castro Jersey . -- On the field, it was business as usual for Jameis Winston and No. J. T. Realmuto Jersey . Ronaldo produced a spectacular individual performance on Tuesday, scoring all three goals and guiding Portugal into the next years World Cup in Brazil with a 3-2 victory in Sweden. 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Among the skaters she worked with while there is New York Islanders center John Tavares.Its something that Ive wanted to see happen, she said in a statement released by the Coyotes. The fact that they respect what I do enough to name me as a full-time coach, or to name me as the first female coach in the NHL, I take a ton of pride in that. Martin Prado Jersey. Ive worked very hard for this opportunity. Its been going on for years and I just look forward to going even further with it.The hiring is the latest in a series of breakthroughs for women in mens sports.Last year, the Buffalo Bills made Kathryn Smith the NFLs first full-time assistant coach. Smith is the teams quality control coach.The NBA has had two female assistant coaches -- Becky Hammon of the San Antonio Spurs and Nancy Lieberman of the Sacramento Kings.A year ago, the Arizona Cardinals made Jen Welter the first woman to hold a coaching position of any kind in the NFL when she served as an intern in the preseason. 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