YOU ARE A GREAT COACH
Dear Mom,
We have watched together team sports like football and basketball where a group of players on one side plays against the other group of players on the other side. We have often seen on each side, a person who often yells at the team. The person makes some strategic changes and steers the team. This person is known as the coach. Mom, my siblings and I are a team and you are our record creating coach. You are guiding us towards the goal.
In you, I have a natural coach. You have the entire attribute I need to have. You are gifted with love, joy, happiness, strength, and hardwork, all the gifts I need to become a great life player. I am depending on your guidance and intuition to play me into the game called life. I am aware you had been a great player yourself and now as my coach, I would love to benefit from your wealth of experience.
Coaches do have a wealth of experience. The reason being that they have undergone series of trainings and have had experiences of failing and getting it right. They had had moment of success and failures. It is based on their experiences that they guide and tutor their teams. Your position as my coach is not disputed. Your experiences growing up have developed inside you useful virtues that I need and will need in the future. Because you have had your failures and success, you do not need me to repeat your failures. You want to guide me to success only.
When coaches stand on the sidelines, you have often watched them shout out instructions. They see what the players on the pitch do not see. My siblings and I are blind even though we do have eyes. You have realized as you watch us grow how much we need your guidance. Sometimes mom, you will have to shout out instructions. It is a duty you owe us.
Coaches cheer their team. As much as they yell, they also do cheer. We are counting on your cheers to get going. I often look at your face to see the smiles of encouragement. Your smiles excite and keep me going. I feel very proud knowing mom is behind me.
Coaches share the brunt of losing along with their team. Coaches fail when their team fails. As my coach, you share the brunt of my failure; you do have to accept this fact. Some moms often spank their wards for failing to perform. Great coaches do not. They bear responsibility and decide that their team will not have to get it wrong again. Rather than make harsh and irrational condemnation, you can use that energy in creatively helping me out of my failures. You have to become my burden bearer.
Coaches never stop learning. With every game, they develop their skill and keep themselves up to date with latest coaching techniques. Mom, the role of a coach requires that you update yourself with the latest child training techniques. I have to be up to date with latest trends and my peers should not have a chance to be ahead of me.
As my coach, I am relying on your guidance to attain my goal. You do have successful attributes but the measure of your success is in how much I have succeeded. My successes are your laurels.
No sooner than a coach wins, he begins to plan for the future games. My future and those of my siblings are a high priority regardless of how well we do presently. You do have to work towards my future progress and I am sure you know you have to start your preparations now.
With love
Your beloved daughter