Constructive dissent

What to do? When the kids stop following your drills. Or one of the kids puts their bib on in a way that makes them look like a tube, not a human being.

I can tell you that it’s easy to just reach for games that everyone will enjoy like tag or bulldogs. Or maybe set up a kickabout so they can do what they want.

What is not easy to do is figure out a way to engage kids in a way that will progress their skills.

Behaviour problem or engagement problem?

If you want to know what that struggle looks like you could do worse than watch Andrew Flintoff’s Field of Dreams.

The long game is to encourage constructive dissent. But in the short term, it can simply feels like dissent. One way to win is to make it about something bigger than you.