My 5 year old daughter's first match :)
Frankie Boy
AYSO here in south Orange County plays 4-on-4 for U6-the first 45 minutes
are practice, followed by a 1/2 hour game.
My daughter Natalie is one of the younger kids (just 5) and displayed
exactly how young she is by running away from, not towards, the ball-and
when it was kicked to her she ran straight off the field scared right to
Mama and Daddy ! When I suggested that she might want to kick the ball, she
told me, crying all the time "but I might get cut up and hurt by the ball"!
Of course, since every futbol parent dreams that their daughter is the 2nd
coming of Mia Hamm, watching this display is/was a very humbling experience
:)
Frank
Victoria Barrett
<targe...@cox.net> wrote:
>Had the privlege of witnessing my 5 year old daughter's first match....
That's great, Frank. We have some lovely daddies on RSS. :)
>AYSO here in south Orange County plays 4-on-4 for U6-the first 45 minutes
>are practice, followed by a 1/2 hour game.
>
>My daughter Natalie is one of the younger kids (just 5)
How time flies. I "remember" her when she was just born...
> and displayed
>exactly how young she is by running away from, not towards, the ball-and
>when it was kicked to her she ran straight off the field scared right to
>Mama and Daddy ! When I suggested that she might want to kick the ball, she
>told me, crying all the time "but I might get cut up and hurt by the ball"!
Aww. It's funny the things kids get in their heads about stuff, no?
>Of course, since every futbol parent dreams that their daughter is the 2nd
>coming of Mia Hamm, watching this display is/was a very humbling experience
>:)
Wait 'til she starts to drive, buster.
P.S.: Do you play soccer with her, or do any drills at home? Dad, who
has been poorly recently alas, used to come home exhausted, but still
find energy to "play" with me by teaching me to head the ball. Every
time the ball would fall on the floor, one point to the other person.
Nothing like a soccer-loving dad in life...it's great that you were
there for your baby girl, Frank.
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Jim Goloboy
<targe...@cox.net> wrote:
>Of course, since every futbol parent dreams that their daughter is the 2nd
>coming of Mia Hamm, watching this display is/was a very humbling experience
I hope you are starting double sessions in the backyard. Sigi Schmid
is probably available for coaching!
Frankie Boy
"Victoria Barrett" <vbar...@the-beach.net> wrote in message
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I do play with her a little bit, but also put her in a 4-day camp run by the
girls coach here at Santa Margarita High (BTW-alma mater of Parade girls'
player of the year in 2005 and new member of WNT Amy Rodriguez)-.
She is familiar with drills (much more than me, who was too old to play
competitively by the time futbol began to catch on at the youth level)-I
learn by watching her coach (who seems quite good and has a touch with the
little girls)...
Will do some Friday before game #2-8AM Saturday...
We will work on kicking the ball, not running away :)
Frankie Boy
Being at 0800 :(, she was tired to begin with-therefore she and her team
sleepwalked through the session...
She got an award from her coach for being good on throw-ins and running
around behind the play :)
Still scared of the ball, though. Dad is making a point of taking her to
the back yard and proving the ball doesn't hurt too bad (and also doing a
drill where she has to try to take away the ball)...
The amazing thing is that she does have a couple of little girls who have
the making of players-including one girl who actually did a backheel into
space on the sideline which led to a goal....they play 4 on 4 (when my
daughter is on the field, it is 4 on 3)....
Any ideas on other ways I can help to eliminate her fear? She is
coachable-due to weekly swimming lessons, she is becoming quite the little
swimmer-so I suspect with a good teaching approach we can get through
this...
"Jim Goloboy" <gol...@uiuc.edu> wrote in message
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Bruce Scott TOK
[...]
>Any ideas on other ways I can help to eliminate her fear? She is
>coachable-due to weekly swimming lessons, she is becoming quite the little
>swimmer-so I suspect with a good teaching approach we can get through
>this...
I think the only reasonable thing is patience. With some people that
can simply take longer. It was this way for me with water. I didn't
get over it until age 8. I would say keep doing your small scale stuff
with the ball in the yard until she comes through, and don't try to
force anything. In the end it'll be OK.
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Bruce
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Victoria Barrett
<targe...@cox.net> wrote:
>Matchday #2:
>
>Being at 0800 :(, she was tired to begin with-therefore she and her team
>sleepwalked through the session...
Aww. Still, at 5 they recoup easier. :)
>She got an award from her coach for being good on throw-ins and running
>around behind the play :)
Positive reinforcement. That must've made her proud.
>Still scared of the ball, though. Dad is making a point of taking her to
>the back yard and proving the ball doesn't hurt too bad (and also doing a
>drill where she has to try to take away the ball)...
As Bruce said, children get strange thoughts into their heads, like
being scared of barbers, and Santa Claus, who I find kinda scary to
this day.
I'm sure she'll get over it with your patient love. :)
>The amazing thing is that she does have a couple of little girls who have
>the making of players-including one girl who actually did a backheel into
>space on the sideline which led to a goal....they play 4 on 4 (when my
>daughter is on the field, it is 4 on 3)....
>
>Any ideas on other ways I can help to eliminate her fear? She is
>coachable-due to weekly swimming lessons, she is becoming quite the little
>swimmer-so I suspect with a good teaching approach we can get through
>this...
Well the positive reinforcement route is best.
Here's something girlie for you to try (not all girls are girlie, like
I was, but it couldn't hurt).
Tell her that for every drill she does without flinching, you'll give
her a sticker of her favourite character -- mine was Hello Kitty, and
Babar, e.g.
Have them handy already, after ascertaining her preference. Then
reward her by putting them on a tray outside your backyard, so she
sees them pile up.
Obviously, I used stickers as my example, but they can be any little
thing which kids are into. :)
Good luck!
SHUSSBAR
are practice, followed by a 1/2 hour game. a 20/30 minutes session is
plenty
I think that is too much for a 5/6 y old cause of attention span issue,
like you mentioned. Ball is 10 feet away, they look for crickets or
ladybugs in the grass.! Oh watch the ball, it s back, one , two kicks,
oops, it s gone. Oh, a worm, and what that doing here? A beetle, Ewww!
;-))
Victoria Barrett
>I think that is too much for a 5/6 y old cause of attention span issue,
>like you mentioned. Ball is 10 feet away, they look for crickets or
>ladybugs in the grass.! Oh watch the ball, it s back, one , two kicks,
>oops, it s gone. Oh, a worm, and what that doing here? A beetle, Ewww!
>;-))
That is really a perfect description of how a child's mind works. It
sounded positively ee cummingsish, Shussy.
SHUSSBAR
????? Explain plizzzzzzzzz.
I know. i used to ''coach'' 5/6 years old in their 1 year of football.
Victoria Barrett
>>ee cummingsish
>
>????? Explain plizzzzzzzzz.
Noted American avant-garde poet, and artist of the 20's-30's. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
Excerpt:
"As well as being influenced by notable modernists including Stein and
Pound, Cummings early work drew upon the imagist experiments of Amy
Lowell. Later his visits to Paris exposed him to Dada and surrealism,
which in turn permeated his work. [...]
As a painter, Cummings understood the importance of presentation, and
used typography to "paint a picture" with some of his poems".
Ergo, my immediate reaction to what you wrote.
>I know. i used to ''coach'' 5/6 years old in their 1 year of football.
Still, it showed you can get "in" a child's mind, even if it's by
observation.
Oddly enough, though we were all children once, and we know what we
felt, many adults tend to forget the interior life of children.
Paul C
<vbar...@the-beach.net> wrote:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
E E Cummings? Shurely shome mishtake.