Weekly reflection 5-10

During the week I have realized that the kids love the attention that you give them because they might not get the attention when they are in their homes that they need. 

  I learned that the kids enjoy just being able to be free of the pressures outside in their homes. I think the club is an awesome place for the kids to go. I do enjoy being with the kids and teaching them something they have no idea about. This gives them the opportunity to have something to look back on when they get older and see that someone took their time to be patient with them and teach them something that they may have never heard or even seen. Even helping them with keeping busy with the there homework or just different activities other than playing field hockey is a great help to keep their minds off the stress of the world.

  I think being asked to do certain activities with the kids was just a way to keep them busy and also get help with what they need to learn and also get what they want to learn and get better at.

  I didn’t expect it would be like this because I thought I was going to have a lot older kids that would be more interested in playing field hockey and being more involved with it. I thought that I was going to be having to be able to teach it and have the kids understand and want to learn more than just mess around and not listen to what I was teaching them. I also felt that I would have older kids that would want to play. There were some surprises the first day when I wasn’t expecting that young girls were going to be there and young boys. I wasn’t expecting to have to yell at the kids and tell them that I was going to have to send them inside if they didn’t listen.

  I think that this is all a learning experience for me because it will help me become more patient with the kids instead of wanting to push them into doing something that isn’t going by the time I want it to.

   I will benefit from this week because it will help me be patient with the kids. It will also have the kids be able to teach me new things that will help me with coaching later on in my life.