Lessons Learned While Attending Sporting Events
In the last few weeks we have taken our family to a few sporting events. These events have given our family a plethora of learning experiences.My children play various sports and we adults are frequently coaches. My husband and I played a variety of sports in our day. This does not mean that we know everything about each sport. We do train, educate ourselves and try very hard.
Within the sporting events that we have frequented as of late - collegiate and professional - what have I learned?
That many people wish they could be coaches and/or players at one or both of those levels and possibly get paid for it.
Instead they pay to attend events where they can sit in the stands and yell at the players, coaches and referees. They tell them how horrible and wrong they are. This leads to them making fools of themselves, showing how much they truly don't know about the given sport and getting shown in the stands up by an eight year old who does understand the rules.
Those who can't get paid to coach/play will apparently pay just to be able to coach from the stands. That is what I learned.
My children learned patience and how to politely share their voices. They also learned that many people are totally off base within their knowledge and understanding of sports they propose to love so much.
My eight year old says that they should do more research before opening their mouths. That is MY child and I could not agree with him more!
Life lessons appear everyday!
posted by LoveMyTanker @ 7:40 AM
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