The best part about sports.
When the volunteer coaches yell “help each other”
When the parents clap for the kids on the other team
When the little athletes laugh and hug each other after the game
When learning life lessons are fun.
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The best part about sports.
When the volunteer coaches yell “help each other”
When the parents clap for the kids on the other team
When the little athletes laugh and hug each other after the game
When learning life lessons are fun.
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Yep. Good people.
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Those volunteers are pretty amazing.
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When they’re taught about fairground
Of cheers and hugs all round
Life’s lessons become spellbound
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And we’re all the better for it Ivor 🙂
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Yeah….xx
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yes!
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😀
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❤️
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❤
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And dispense with the competition that breeds hate. AGREED with what you said, Colleen!
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Competition is okay … it’s how we teach them to deal with competition, win and loss, that matters. 😉
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Sorry didn’t express myself right. Yes, competition is good but when it reaps hatred not only between players but parents, then it is a nightmare. It’s the teaching how to handle completion that as you said counts.
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Those nightmares are horrible. I’ve seen them. All I can think of is what is it doing to the children. Then I see some amazing volunteers, parents, and players and I have faith is ‘us’.
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I’ve seen those nightmares too. They turn my stomach to be quite honest.
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I’m with you on that Amy🌹
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Yes to all of the above, MBC!
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It’s so fun when they are this little. 🙂
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Very special, Colleen. I like sports activities for children! My son told me that our grandson, barely 2, is in a very early-beginner soccer exercise conducted weekly. I haven’t yet seen it happen, but apparently the little ones run and kick the ball and meet in the middle to give each other spontaneous hugs if they get too close or run into each other. This just tickles me. They don’t have any idea what they’re doing is going to one day be competitive! Too cute!
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Oh I love this Debra. I have seen the soccer teams from 4 and up and there is such a change, obviously, as they get older. But the changes are not always good. It is amazing to watch the skill improve. But it is shocking (not that it is always there, but sometimes is) to see the change in conduct and sportsmanship as they get older. On the same note though, it is amazing to watch as they age and see maturity develop in many of the players.
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