Okay. My daughter had her first soccer practice with her new soccer team last night. She was on a team last season but there weren't enough kids who wanted to come back and play to have a team, so they distributed the kids among other teams. I knew things weren't going to be great when I got the message that there were two practices a week (Tuesday and Thursday). Thursday got knocked out real fast because of dance, so I told the coach that she would be there on Tuesdays only. Last night he asked if there was a better night other than Thursday we could practice and I told him no that we she was busy on Mondays and Thursday in addition to Tuesdays, and we like to spend time as a family so that was really it. We learned from our son's soccer experience that some people take it WAY too seriously at this age.
Back to Caroline's practice. When we got to practice, we noticed that she was much taller than the other players (she's a head and shoulder amount taller than the tallest boy), plus she's the only girl. That didn't seem to bother her too much, she just acted like she did with her brother. Of course, I got all kinds of questions from how old she was to how tall my husband must be for her to be as tall as she was (she's 3 feet 10 inches). It made some of them feel better when I told them she was five, until Caroline said she had just turned 5.
The other thing that doesn't bode well for the sport for her was the pace of practice and what they worked on. The main part of the soccer practice was staying INSIDE the field and dribbling outside the field. In order to get this concept down the coach had them play freeze tag. Caroline started off by being it and within a little more than a minute and a half every boy was crying and "frozen". Caroline got majoring frustrated and walked over to me and said, "What's wrong with them?!" I suggested it was because they got tagged so fast and her reply was, "Well that's part of the game.' She was so exasperated by them.
She at least likes the name of the team. Go Lightning!
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Good for her! I'm thinking I'd better get to the first soccer game of the season, because it may be the only game as far as she's concerned.
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