Is there anything more uplifting than watching your child play primary school sport? It's so refreshing to see kids just trying their hardest and having fun running around with their friends. Even when goal after goal goes to the other team and our side's goalie is practising handstands for lack of contact with the ball the team confidently run up to their teacher at the end of the game and ask "Who won?"  

The beginning teams are especially great to watch as they don't quite know the rules or really the purpose of the game, but they do know that it has something to do with the ball, so they run around in a pack following the ball and anyone who has it. From my observations, it takes a few games until they understand the rules and the last years of primary until they use strategy in their games. I have so much respect for the teachers and parent coaches that get the teams from one stage to the next.

In between those years there are heartening displays of empathy for injured players and displays of honesty and justice when a player has done something wrong and given up the ball even though the umpire didn't see it or call it. These years also see cheering from the team that kicked an own goal, thinking they just scored and sometimes looks of horror on the faces of parents at the physical disparity between their child and the child that has been sent straight from the Land of the Giants to defend them.

So if you want to experience more colour and drama than a Bollywood blockbuster I suggest you get down to your child's next game of sport and experience the pure joy of watching your child making contact with the ball, or not making contact with the ball!