I am a soccer coach for New York City Scores Program. I coach at an elementary school. My girls range from 8-12 years old. This is my second season at the school and many of the kids came back from last year. We had a double headed today. It was pretty chilly out today and a little rainy, enough to freeze my hands. Ouch. We lost the first game, tied the next one.
I want to be a good coach but I'm thinking I need a break at it. After a whole day of teaching all I want to do is go coach girls that want to play soccer and have fun doing it. Generally we do and it's great to see thhe girls really enjoying it all. But somedays...it is painful to be a coach.
Are there some kids that have a streak of maliciousness in them? Could it be they don't really know how truly mean they are to one another. Is it something they just need to grow out of? I know they are still really little girls but I am constantly taken aback at what they say and do to friends, and worse yet, non-friends.
Drives me nuts. But, enough for tonight. I'm still chilled to the bone and staying in under a blanket reading :) Best kind of night after a long week of hanging with the kiddies.
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