Jake's first soccer season

Well we started out rocky with soccer this year. Jake didn't seem to understand the concept and spent his first practice crying that no one passed him the ball. Tell you what, it was a major feat for me, miss competition, to be nice about that one. My instinct is to say, "get the heck on that field, wipe off those tears and do you dang job!!" I resisted. Instead what came out was something more like "I understand that you're upset but your team is counting on you to be out there trying to help. Here's a hug, wipe off your tears and get out there until practice is over."

I felt that was major improvement.

When we got home Tyler took him out in the back and taught him different ways to steal the ball. As the first game approached I was more nervous than him! Turns out practice with Ty paid off...

We didn't have a single tear at the game and he left saying that was the funnest thing he'd ever done in his life! Victory!!