Monday, October 31, 2011
Dun Dun...Dun!
I finally met with Susan and she said that my idea was crap, not in those words though. I thought that the project was suppose to be about ourselves so I did it on wanting to get over my fear of public speaking but that wasn't what Susan wanted. She said I needed to impact my community and when she asked me I had no idea what I wanted to do. By coaching I wanted to teach the kids not only baseball but something greater. A life lesson. I want to show them that winning isn't everything and how to be good leaders, since we did go to a meeting thing last year at Susan's house and talk about that, and also that Pink book we had to read over the summer should be a perfect starting point in how I coach. But how to I make them learn what I want to teach them? Hoe do I know that everything I show them will really stick and that they will go through with it for the rest of their lives? I don't. And I've been thinking and kids now a days are more violent than they were back then. My little brother plays football for the park that I want to coach baseball at and there is a fight between the kids like every game. I think, am I really ready to handle all of that? What if the kids pick a fight with me? Help me figure out how to do this classmates and teachers. What should I do?
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I think you had a clear idea at the beginning of your project. As you went along you got confused with either choosing obesity in children or coaching. I think you have the motivation to do it, put more effort. Good luck! I know you'll do well. Pick and choose what you prefer best.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I have no light to shed on the whole children picking a fight with you, but know that I understand your fear, I have one similar to that. But I can shed some light on the coaching issue. You want to inspire life lessons within kids through coaching, and show them that there’s more to life than winning every game. However, I think that something that you can do that can really help kids is helping find confidence within themselves. I used to play little league baseball and my first year we lost EVERY game we played, but the coach stressed that it was about having fun and there was more to winning and although he had a point losing every game wasn’t much fun either. The next year I was part of the first place team and I was probably one of the worst kids on the team, I was second to last in the batting order and almost never touched the ball in right field (it was little league, no one hit that far then). However I was much better than I realized. The problem was that I had no confidence within myself, which was only worsened by the fact that I was on a first place team with a bunch of overly confident 10 year olds who certainly didn’t hesitate to show you they were much better. But my lack of confidence then carried on to much more than baseball and still affects me today, despite that I was actually a decent ball player I never played like one in the game because I expected myself to fail. I think you can be really effective as an assistant coach, because I think the Chinquapin schedule will prevent you from being able to make all the practices as a head coach, who focuses on working with the less talented and less confident kids in a team and helping them build up the skills they need in both baseball and in having self-confidence. I believe that you can really impact a lot of kids this way.
ReplyDeleteDon't you think you've worked towards a stronger sense of your project here? You are asking great questions! I think you are on your way.
ReplyDeleteCrap, really? Is that how it felt to you?