Patty Gasso has built a program that’s become the standard by which every other softball program is measured.
- 8 national titles since 2000. 6 in the last 8 years
- Only 4-peat in NCAA softball history
- 9 straight WCWS appearances
Before you complain, look at the trophy case.
7 REASONS TO THANK GOD TODAY:
1. He woke you up today.
2. It’s a new day.
3. You have the Word in your hand.
4. You have food to eat.
5. There is a roof over your head.
6. He will never abandon you.
7. God’s love for you NEVER changes!
Martin Luther King Jr. was unpopular because he challenged comfort, not because he preached hate.
He wasn’t assassinated for having a dream. He was assassinated for demanding justice. Honoring MLK means more than quoting him. It means confronting what he warned us about.
For generations, kids had three worlds:
1. Home
2. School
3. A third place; the park, the field, the neighborhood, the church gym, the rec center.
That third place is where kids learned: • how to solve problems without an adult
• how to read emotions and faces
• how to handle conflict
• how to lose
• how to make friends
• how to negotiate and compromise
• how to sit with frustration
• how to just be a kid
But today?
Most kids' third place is a screen.
A screen doesn’t teach boundaries.
A screen doesn’t teach emotional regulation.
A screen doesn’t teach cooperation or conflict skills.
A screen doesn’t teach patience or self-control.
So all the social and emotional skills kids used to practice before they walked into school…
they have to learn inside school now.
And that’s why:
behavior feels different
attention feels different
emotions feel bigger
classroom management is tougher.
This isn’t a “kids these days” problem.
It’s a cultural shift.
When the third place disappears, childhood changes.
And schools end up carrying what the community used to teach.
Until kids get their third place back, we’re going to keep seeing the fallout
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