Goal for PeeWee soccer experience
Week 1: Learn about and play soccer (winning optional)
modify: Play soccer
modify: Practice kicking ball into net
modify: kick ball
Try next week
Week 2 Prior to practice discuss rules:
1. Kick the ball into the net.
2. Kick the ball to friends.
3. No touching ball with your hands.
4. Kick to Walter’s net.
5. No crying.
These were written down, with accompanying drawings and reviewed for several days.
Daddy takes Walter to practice. Amongst screaming and tears he immediately finds other team’s net and lays down in it so no one can play.
Week 3
Skip game so others kids can play without Walter as a goalie.
Week 4
Goal: Watch kids play then join
modify: Watch kids play
modify: No crying
modify: Only cry half the time
SUCCESS!
All you have to do to be successful is modify your goals along the way. Two weeks remain.
Goal: Slightly less then half the time crying.
