We was a’watchin’ some homemade movies recently and the memries was just a laugh a minute. One in particlar showed one of ours when she was just a lil 4 year old playin’ soccer. She’d run around a’followin’ the pack not knowin’ much what to do. She stopped several times to pull up her socks – it was sorta a fettish for her at that age. Anyways, as we all laughed, I also was payin’ attention to the talk goin’ on between the siblings. I think they all enjoyed her looking silly but she just had to make sure they understood that they were worse than that. I hate to tell ya but most kids don’t know much about the mechanics o’ soccer when they’s only 4. So, to say anything about the others was just a waste o’ breath. Why she couldn’t just laugh like the rest o’ them did when they were shown a’doin’ silly things just beat me. Mammy and I have tried ta teach all our younguns to laugh at theirselves ‘cause it beats cryin’. Hopefully this one can learn that lesson sometime afore she gets out in the real world.
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What should have been funnier to watch was the parents with a camcorder the size of a small European car resting on their shoulder trying to capture such a precious moment.
I still wonder about the whole soccer experience for kids that just cannot grasp the concept and skills of the game at that age.
Parents shouldn't have to pay for that kind of entertainment. Would the results be any different if the junior primary were to organize a day at the park, throw out a soccer ball and yell, go kick the ball?
Okay, now that I've been cynical, I can go rewatch Elder Hollands talk.
It is a good thing if kids can learn to laugh at themselves, especially with something as trivial as their experiences [such as soccer and pulling up socks]from early childhood.
Actually, we never had the European car model. Our fist video camera was a compact (and I use that term lightly) sports version that measured about 12" long x 6" high x 6" wide.
I do concur with your "cynical" comments about the use of sending a bunch of 4 year olds running after a ball (or the pack of kids in this case). You did point out entertainment but I could think of a lot less expensive forms of entertainment with at least equal value. So, we'll both have to rewatch Elder Holland's talk...
excuse me padre, but i don't remember this whole thing about me keeping mad or something, i did laugh i thought it was funny all i did was say they prob couldn't have done it either....i wasn't crying....you shouldn't lie about me on ur blog
anonymous chillin of mine,
I didn't say you was a cryin. I said we try to teach ya'll to laugh at yorselves causee it beats cryin. It's one of them thar sayins people use. And, I know ya laughed, it's the need to make any comments to one of the other younguns that I was commentin' on. One that truly laughs at oneself doesn't feel a need to make sure others are aware of their own inabilities.
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