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Not playing for the team – what is happening in kids’ soccer?
This past week has been a tough week for my boys soccer wise. This has led me to evaluate what soccer nowadays entails for my kids and whether I want to continue to pay for something which is becoming a less than satisfying experience for them and, by extension, for me. I always thought that sport was meant to be fun but I am becoming increasingly aware that this is not the case; that the value that team participation passes onto your kid is not always positive. It is about the win, but not for your kids.
By Rachel Deeming4 years ago in Families
Positive Emotions. Top Story - August 2024.
The flower sat on the window sill as a reminder of positive emotions. It was a marigold and it was a bright resilient orange. It was starting to get leggy, straggly at its stem; it looked forlorn as it had been there for some time in its pot. Brownness was encroaching on its edges, eroding its leaves and causing them to tatter; like rags and bags caught forever on a fence, unable to escape the merciless, relentless wind, waiting to disintegrate. Summer was almost over and it would die. It had dry soil with a crispy crust, scattered with vermiculite from the once healthy potting mix. Its stem and leaves had once been a vibrant green but now it looked like a child's drawing of a flower, coloured with cheap acrylic paints from the dollar store that were too thin and presented colour like a veil, not a brick. It was fading and no-one was there to notice except her.
By Rachel Deeming5 years ago in Fiction
An Unexpected Surprise
When Emily went to open her front door that morning as she was heading out to walk the dog, she was surprised to find a meticulously wrapped brown paper parcel on her doorstep, next to the boot scraper and flagstone steps of her period home. It had no stamps but was tied with bright white string with a vintage paper tag attached. There was no name on it.
By Rachel Deeming5 years ago in Fiction
