Dealing with heartbreak

As a mom I think it was easier to ease your child's pain, when they were little, because it was mostly physical. I had my first encounter of the other kind, the other day. Alyssa went to a basketball camp here in Panguitch for the last 3 days. She is very talented and coordinated, and can do just about anything (as most of you know). But the second day of the camp she came out of the gym and to the car with kind of an angry/sad look on her face and her arms folded. Now most of you have seen this look and so I just took it as though she was mad at some of the boys at the camp (because they were in her class and they bug her). But after she got in and I asked her what was wrong she burst into tears. Just before they ended that day there were several drills that each kid was to do and if they made a basket they counted it as a point. Well she didn't get any points and she was totally heart broken. At first I didn't know what to do, because well this was me and Alyssa. But then I got mad and was going to go cuss everyone at the camp. After we got home we talked and I told her about the time when I was a senior in high school and was playing on my high school team. One game in Juab I played the whole game and never made a shot. Yes, I shot the ball, a lot because after a while the other team just quit guarding me after I picked up my dribble. But my coach kept encouraging me to keep shooting and I did and I never scored a point that game.

Well, the next day was better and she had a great time and learned a lot at the camp. She even got an award for being a person who always listened to the instructors, always doing what was asked and never complaining (2 free video rentals at Silver Eagle).