Comments on: When playing sports is a humbling experience for kids https://mayahoodblog.com/when-playing-sports-is-a-humbling-experience-for-kids/ A blog about parenting, family-friendly travel & product reviews Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Maya Fitz https://mayahoodblog.com/when-playing-sports-is-a-humbling-experience-for-kids/#comment-36240 Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:49:25 +0000 https://mayahoodblog.com/?p=13091#comment-36240 😉]]> In reply to Scrapatini.

Awww. I love this. Thanks for sharing your story of success and failure and lessons learned. That’s why we sign our kids up for so many sports I guess ☺️😉

]]> By: Scrapatini https://mayahoodblog.com/when-playing-sports-is-a-humbling-experience-for-kids/#comment-36239 Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:36:33 +0000 https://mayahoodblog.com/?p=13091#comment-36239 I get this! My son’s team stunk this season! Like seriously stunk! It was so hard to see them loose game after game. We were 1-11 at the end of the season which put us in last place. It got to the point that none of the team even wanted to play anymore but most of them stuck through it. It really stinks getting blown out week after week and watching your kid be so hard on themselves. In our league the tournament structure was changed to have an A& B side winner for the first time that I had ever seen. We played our first game. And guess what? We won! You would have thought that we had won the lottery that night everyone was crying and the kids dog piled in the middle of the rink. If they didn’t win another game the rest of the tournament I think they would have still been so happy! We played again the next morning and we won again! WTF? We did lose our 3rd game by 1 point but it was still enough to get us into the B side gold medal game! We won gold! It was amazing! My son is so proud of that medal. He slep with it that night and proudly wore it to school the next morning. He still occasionally walks around with it on! It was hard earned. The best part of this story is the life lessons that came with it. He learned that working hard doesn’t always mean success but you can’t succeed if you don’t. He learned not to give up even when he felt like it. He learned to take one for the team (his body was covered in bruises from blocking shots) He learned that he sometimes you don’t always get your way. ( he likes to play forward and is pretty good at it but coach tried to break the slump and shake things up a bit and put him defence and he is amazing at that!) Preserverance, drive and determination! He also learned to be a sweet, caring friend. (Our goalie was not great in the beginning and my son said that he wished that he could be mad at and blame the goalie but he just couldn’t because the kid was such a great guy and he knew that he was trying his best) Team effort! These are all lessons that he never would have learned if we had a winning season!]]> Ball hockey Mom here!🙋‍♀️ I get this! My son’s team stunk this season! Like seriously stunk! It was so hard to see them loose game after game. We were 1-11 at the end of the season which put us in last place. It got to the point that none of the team even wanted to play anymore but most of them stuck through it. It really stinks getting blown out week after week and watching your kid be so hard on themselves. In our league the tournament structure was changed to have an A& B side winner for the first time that I had ever seen. We played our first game. And guess what? We won! You would have thought that we had won the lottery that night everyone was crying and the kids dog piled in the middle of the rink. If they didn’t win another game the rest of the tournament I think they would have still been so happy! We played again the next morning and we won again! WTF? We did lose our 3rd game by 1 point but it was still enough to get us into the B side gold medal game! We won gold! It was amazing! My son is so proud of that medal. He slep with it that night and proudly wore it to school the next morning. He still occasionally walks around with it on! It was hard earned. The best part of this story is the life lessons that came with it. He learned that working hard doesn’t always mean success but you can’t succeed if you don’t. He learned not to give up even when he felt like it. He learned to take one for the team (his body was covered in bruises from blocking shots) He learned that he sometimes you don’t always get your way. ( he likes to play forward and is pretty good at it but coach tried to break the slump and shake things up a bit and put him defence and he is amazing at that!) Preserverance, drive and determination! He also learned to be a sweet, caring friend. (Our goalie was not great in the beginning and my son said that he wished that he could be mad at and blame the goalie but he just couldn’t because the kid was such a great guy and he knew that he was trying his best) Team effort! These are all lessons that he never would have learned if we had a winning season!

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