Is your little one starting soccer this year? Good! Playing sports is such a great way to infuse values and culture in your family legacy. It also serves as an active foundation to connect with your kids as they grow in love and competition with their sport. Now that I’m a Rookie Soccer mom myself – and no longer the hardcore soccer player – I hope to use the sport as an active parenting legacy tool.
To help us Rookie Soccer Moms along, I’m over at LetsPlay.com today as their newest Play Ambassador sharing 5 Tip for Rookie Soccer Parents.
I’m honored to partner with Let’s Play, an initiative by Dr Pepper Snapple Group, to provide kids and families with the tools, places and inspiration to make active play a daily priority.
Together with nonprofits KaBOOM! and Good Sports, Let’s Play is working to eliminate the “play deficit” by building and improving play spaces and providing grants for athletic equipment and gear. By 2017, DPS will provide nearly 10 million children across North America with new opportunities to play and be active through Let’s Play. I’ll be serving as a Play Ambassador for Let’s Play this year, and look forward to sharing active play-themed posts, like this one, with you!
Building Family Legacy Through Soccer
I’ve often talked about how important soccer was to my youth. How it connected me to a stable routine during my parents’ divorce; how it provided me with a group of friends during high school, and now that I’m a parent, I realize how much sports served as a tool for my dad to bond with his kids. He was at every practice, kept me fueled and hydrated and used soccer as a vehicle to shower me with love. Now that I’m a Rookie Soccer Mom myself, I remember how his commitment to my sport evoked virtues that I’m proud to have now. Ones like perseverance and teamwork and a hard work ethic. He was always positive, never overly critical, and on days when I had a horrible game, my dad was there to lift me up. True, he’s always been a sports lover, but soccer was also our way of bonding and I hope to install that same legacy with my future soccer stars.
