By far the cutest thing I have seen in a long time is five-year-old boys learning how to play soccer. Yesterday Evan dribbled the ball down the field through cones and kicked the ball right into the goal with very little trouble, using his right foot.
Then the coach decided it is never too young to learn to kick with your left foot. Evan dribbled the ball down the field just fine and then he stopped. He looked at his coach and pointed at his left foot. "This leg?" "Yep!" Then came an amazing thing, watching a little boy figure out how to use a part of his brain that he really had never used. I wish I could act it out for you or show you a video but of course I didn't get it. He had the parents laughing. He had the coach laughing. He had Amanda and I by the heartstrings. He turned and twisted his body trying to figure out how to kick the ball with the inside of his left foot. Way too interesting and cute. Go try it on your own kid. It might be an entertaining moment.
Then he became a pro. All it took was once, but very seldom do you actually get to see a part of some one's brain firing for the first time. Pretty cool indeed.
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