Mia Hamm….

I realize comparing my three year old to Mia Hamm makes me clueless about the game of soccer by today’s standards but she’s the first female soccer player’s name that popped into my head that wasn’t shrouded in scandal.

Oh and when I say I’m comparing my 3 year old to Ms. Hamm, it’s not because my child shows any promise on the soccer field.

I started thinking about all of the elite athletes whose parents profess, “From the moment my Cher could crawl, she was singing and dancing 24/7” or, “Tiger has been golfing since he was 3 weeks old and never wanted to do anything else as a child.”

You never hear any of these parents say, “I had to drag Mia kicking and screaming, using my coffee cup lid to wipe snot from her cheeks before begging her to please stop crying and get out of the van.”

You don’t hear them telling hilarious anecdotes like, “I once had to bribe Mia with a Tim-Bit to get onto the field and then almost out of rage threaten to take away her pink, toy, cell phone, FOREVER!!!! If she didn’t just walk toward the ball.”

As I watched my three year old “play” soccer, it felt like everyone else’s children knew how to play the game and wanted to be there. They even had soccer names like “Dante” and “Chase.”

There is even a girl named Mia on my daughter’s team.

She is showing real promise.

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