Just for Kicks

At 4 and a half, Jude was enrolled in his first sport this Fall. If playing by himself, as pictured above, he will kick the ball back in forth into the goals staying very focused and appearing to get the object of the game.

Bring other players in and that is where the problem arises. The ball is no longer the focus, his strategy is more lets distract the other players by acting like a complete goofball, he no longer cares where the ball even is.

His favorite is when he gets to be the red team so he can pull the jersey over his face.

As you can see, the player from the other team is clearly distracted, perhaps this may work. He also ran into the goal several times, without the ball and would catch his feet or hair in the net, also having a ball, too bad not with the soccer ball.

I attempted to not say anything to him, the very long 30 minute game, that lasted about 2 seconds. Travis pictured above patiently offering some redirection.

On a positive note, I think we only have room for improvement here.