Author: bugsbrightside

It’s been coming for a week now.  We were going to have a “talk”.  It was necessary.  The talk was to twenty-two girls ranging from 3rd to 8th grade.

I’d written notes.  I’d scratched the notes out.  I had more ideas.  I wrote them down.  I changed my mind.

I tend to be a bit of a story-teller.  I would lose the attention of these girls if I told too many stories.  But I wanted the message to get thru.  And I wanted them to know that we all make mistakes.  And that is when we need to fix the mistakes.

Tonight when the girls heard we were going to have a “talk”.  I got grimaces.  Of course I did.  I mean, who wants to have a “talk” with an adult?  Boring!  And lectures come right to mind, right?

But, it looked like they were listening.  Some of them nodded.  There were a few moments of laughter; I do have a library of embarrassing moments that I don’t mind sharing with the world 😉  Laughter tends to break the ice.

I felt it went good.  And then practice was over.  And everyone went home.

After I got back home and settled in to my chair, checking Facebook, I read a message.  After the talk, one girl went up to another girl and apologized for being mean at the last game.  My heart melted!  I don’t know if any other girl there listened, but at least one did.  Something worked!

Tonight I am thankful that tonight’s talk was listened to.  Hopefully they roll the words over in the heads tonight and tomorrow.  And we’ll keep talking ❤

Here’s a pic from our “talk” that my daughter snapped while we were talking.  I had to blur it a little for privacy and such of the girls.  But I thought it was a good picture.  My daughter wrote the caption on there too 🙂