Getting young children’s to learn how to do something like scoop a ground ball, first requires their attention. Getting their attention, is easy, sustaining it, however, can be challenging.

A few months from now, the weather will be textbook New England; cold and rainy. The pay check will not increased one red cent bringing your whopping total for 10 stellar weeks of effort at $0.00.  And the complaints about playing time and uniform sizes will start to pour in to your inbox by the dozens. You knew this though, and yet you continue to raise your hands each year looking to help out! 

Kobe’s passing is truly unfortunate and not because we lost of the games greatest players but we lost a man who embodied the principles of hard work and sacrifice to achieve success. A worthwhile principle I hope all parents reading this will consider for how we raise our kiddos and the activities we select for them to partake in. Instead of pushing our kids into certain sports based our own affiliation and history with that sport, let’s instead focus providing unconditional love and support in whatever activity they express passion. If we do that, we probably will not raise the next greatest basketball player but hopefully the next Kobe Bryant of engineering or education.🧑🏻‍🎓 .

One of the games they absolutely love is called Bucket Ball. Cleary, no points awarded for naming of games. Nonetheless, the objective is to get the ball into the bucket from 5-7 yards out. The player who ends up with the most balls in the bucket after shooting their 20 or so balls is the winner. 🥍🗑

Scoops Lacrosse was born out of a total dad fail the winter of 2017.  At the time, I wanted nothing more than my then 5 year old son Archer to enjoy and love the game of #lacrosse as much I do.