Not so long ago, we had this practice with kids’ sports that everyone who participated received a trophy. Win or lose, each kid was rewarded with a plastic image, usually gold-painted, mounted on a wood-looking piece of plastic. There was a little brass-like plaque with the kid’s name, team, date. There might be additional trophies …
In the 1920’s, there were sixteen teams split between two leagues. Every team played its rival teams eleven times at home and eleven times away (a total of 22 games per rival) for a 154-game season. Then, there came expansions, divisions within each league, interleague play, and so on. Soon, a specter of 198 games …
If you give a kid a ball, you know s/he is going to want to throw it. If s/he throws it, she or he will want someone to catch it and return the throw. Kids are like that. Then, those kids will want to hit it with something. They’ll need a bat. If they’re going …
“You got this!” Those three little words can go a long way toward healing. Healing from the toxicity of shame that affects so many people’s lives. The more we hear those words, and the more we use them in our own conversations, the better off we will all be. It’s my firm conviction that developing …
