Did you have fun?

9/8/12 Did you have fun.......is the right question to ask a 4 year old after his first ever soccer game. Questions NOT to ask: What was the score? Did you win? Did you score? The answers wouldn’t be known for the first two and probably very few goals were scored by anyone.

Life Lessons Learned from a Pre-schooler’s soccer game:

It’s easier to watch people than to keep your eye on the ball, no matter how many times the coach tells you.

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When you’re too afraid and discouraged to join the team huddle, the coach will bring the team to you.

Snacks are important. 

Daddies who coach soccer deserve extra stars in their heavenly crowns. Resting between coaching 4 year olds and 8 year olds, whose games were an hour apart. This was NOT a staged picture.

 For John Parker’s (4) first soccer game he had plenty of advice from 3 older brothers and his dad who was his coach. They asked questions to remind him of rules of the game. (Many of which did not exactly translate to the playing field.)

Nathan asked, “Where do you kick the ball?”

John Parker hollers, “In the goal!”

Caleb asked, “Whose goal? “Mine!” was his shouted answer

Noah asks, Do you touch the ball with your hands?

J.P., “NO!”

 Before getting in the car John Parker said for Pop-Pop to come watch him at Celebration Station. When asked what was going to “happen” there, he said, “Shug’s going to take my picture? (Which I did)

At the end of the game, Coach “Daddy” wisely asked, ”Did you have fun? Did you get what you really wanted---a uniform and snacks?”

”YEA!!!”

A resounding yes to the right question.