Boden, the 5-year-old, has just started soccer. Last week, during their game, his team was losing miserably. There were some good little girls on the other team. Boden, of course, was usually looking the other way, running the wrong way, generally not really getting what soccer is supposed to accomplish. But he noticed all the goals the other team was scoring. So he planted himself in front of his team's net, and blocked the ball when it came in his direction. He actually won an award for being an excellent goalie. Later that day, I asked him why he decided to do that. His coach hadn't asked him to be goalie, he just decided. This was his explanation, "Well, the other team was getting all the stars when they got the ball in their hoop, so I wanted to get some stars, too, so I guarded my hoop."
From this, I take away two main points:
1. He clearly plays too many games on the tablet, where he has to earn stars.
2. While we need to work on terminology a little, I think he has the basic idea of how soccer works. Yay!
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