Goals

With the new year comes the tradition of resolutions.  AJ's class wrote goals for 2015.  His word for 2015 is "football."  We have been doing a lot of talking about football.  Both boys want to be NFL players when they grow up.  They have the names of all the NFL teams memorized and now collect football cards.  So they bone up on the names, positions and stats of as many players as they can.  We are also starting to talk about CTE and the studies showing that football damages players' brains.  It is a heavy concept for kids this age, but I try to use language they can understand and not get into unnecessary detail.  We are doing flag football, but I am not sure that I could ever feel comfortable after these studies having my kids go out for tackle football.  Tackle football in our town starts in the third grade.  With full pads and practices three times a week.    

Here are AJ's goals at age seven, all related to football.  None require helmets and pads.