From an early age, we are trained to spot the difference.
Parents, teachers, and coaches are all trying to do the same thing. Raise, active, healthy, and curious kids. Researchers of Physical Literacy are doing their own thing.
Arguing about the definition, of physical literacy is just one of those things. With a stiff definition of terms, you are rewarded for colouring in between the lines. Open and flexible and it becomes difficult to judge a watercolour against a piece of graffiti.
We rarely see the value of the creative process. Instead, we reward those who stick between the lines since it’s easier to judge the difference.
But perhaps the lesson in all of this is simple.
Who do you serve? Yourself, your peers, or those who are doing the work of trying to develop physical literacy?
Different for different sake is not nearly as useful as explaining the value of what we are doing, in a way that is useful to the others.
That way maybe we can all join in.