I am glad my kids are having fun. I am uncertain if they have learned a thing about soccer this season, but this is the most I have seen them buddy up with teammates before. That is what it is about. Making new connections and finding new friends. Few of the kids at this age have grown into their athletic ability. The natural separation that is inevitable hasn’t happened yet.
Soccer is not as limiting as sports like basketball and football are, but every person playing any sport at a high level is naturally genetically gifted. Basketball is the one where it is the most obvious, but other sports have it just as much.
The future holds what it will hold for them and that isn’t something that we can know. All I know about the present is they had a lot of fun this season hanging out with their new soccer friends. This next week is the last practice and then the final game. They are conflicted about it as it is against all their pre-school friends.
It has been an interesting season and they have done well. They’ve learned a lot even if they stop playing a game halfway through to play rock-paper-scissors with each other instead, and in all of that it is Windsor that is the ringleader. For some reason other kids follow him.
Every time we walk into his school there is always some kid calling out his name that wants to hang out with Windsor. Half the time he hardly notices until we point it out to him. It is good that he has friends and is liked.
We just need to get them to understand that when it is time to play soccer or do school work that that takes priority over friendship. I do think we can get them there, but in the meantime it is good they have friends.
David Huzzard Writes 