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[quote=Anonymous]I have done a few things coaching kids.

First, you are not just teaching soccer, you are teaching teamwork, emotional regulation and paying attention.

Don't wing it, have a plan and make it close to the same each week. It does not have to be the same drills each week but they know 1st we run, then we have drills, then a small side game, then water, then run again, then .....

I am going to assume that on the scale from 1 to 10 the child you are speaking about is a 9 or 10 on the H scale.

If that is true, what I did is I asked if there were any teens that wanted to earn service hours and I had a teen shadow this child every practice. That is 8 SSL hours. He would run the drill with him the 1st time because often these children can't hear/understand/comprehend verbal commands as quickly and easily as other children So you say jump and he jumps 5 seconds later than the other kids and you will be frustrated... but it's 5 seconds. The shadow child helps him run each drill or provides more instruction when he doesn't get it the 1st time.

When you explain a drill I had 2 kids run through as an example and usually I used the child who was having issues paying attention (not always the ADHD child).

This is true for all young kids... you need to repeat drills weekly so after week 3 there is not instruction. We are doing sharks and minnows and they know what that is.

I would stay away from "punishment" and use distractions. Joe, go shoot on the goal with &lt;name of goalie&gt; to warm him up.

You can't possibly be running practices with no assistant, is that the situation?

I broke the kids in smaller groups so there are more touches to the ball which keeps them engaged.

Kids need to change what they are doing every 10 minutes.

Talk to the child one on one, about anything, find out what he is interested in, connect with him. He will be much more likely to do something for you if he thinks you actually know him/care about him. BTW, this is true about every.single.child you should actually get to know them. [/quote]

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