Whether you are a parent or not, or your kid competes or not, there are lessons to be learned from kid sports.
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
Every now and again, your team reaches the championship game of whatever division or level to which you have been assigned. That is what happened to my youngest child yesterday. They played well. They lost. This photo is from late in the game, and you can see she was still competing.
As I've written here before, the best thing about competitive sports for kids is learning about how to lose.
Can you guess how these girls reacted yesterday as their season ended? They cheered. They jumped and yelled and shouted their team chant as if they had won the game. The other team watched them with open mouths, not believing.
If there is a lesson, it is this: Being truly part of a team is so special, that it has a value that none of us could ever calculate.
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1 comment:
What a great team your daughter is a part of. She has learned early that winning and losing is all part of the game. She will be the better off for having grasped this lesson early on in life!!
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