A coach describes his 8-year-old girls' soccer team's first game, where a player got pinched and kids cried. He used it to teach them that challenges either extinguish you like a candle or fuel you like a bonfire in the wind.
Coach my daughter's soccer team. 8 you girls. Kristen, my wife, she's like, the average comprehension level is third grade. So this is a great target audience for you. If you can get them to understand what you're talking about, that's the kind of language you need to use everywhere. But it's been so fun to take all the tools that we have and try and apply them in this rec ayso context. And we had our first game, and one of the girls got pinched by one of the players on the other team. A couple people cried and there was a little bit of dirty playing. And we talked about the next practice. I said, listen, the that's gonna happen. We can't control what's gonna happen to us. We're gonna face challenges. We're gonna have things that happen. We're gonna cry sometimes and whatever. You're like blowing out candles on a birthday cake. Yeah. And you blow em out, right? Like, yeah. Okay. Have you ever, like, made a bonfire? What happens when you blow on that fire? Nothing. It gets bigger. It's like. Yeah. So you can think of the obstacles, like the wind, and the wind will extinguish the candle, but it's gonna fuel a fire.
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