At one point during a game, the coach called one of his 7-year-
Old soccer players aside and asked,
"Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?"

The little boy nodded in the affirmative.

"Do you understand that what matters is whether we win or lose
together as a team?"

The little boy nodded yes.

"So," the coach continued,
"I'm sure you know, when a foul is called, you shouldn't argue,
curse, attack the referee, or call him a pecker-head. Do you
understand all that?"

Again the little boy nodded.

He continued,
"And when I take you out of the game so another boy gets a
chance to play, it's not good sportsmanship to call your coach
'a dumb ' is it?''

Again the little boy nodded.

"Good," said the coach.
"Now go over there and explain all that to your mother."

I loved it!