By Christopher Spriggs of ‘Heads Up Now’ With the formal point-scoring track and field events done – where dozens of children had hurdled, shot and sprinted for all their worth – it came to the final novelty event of the day: a three-legged race. The temptation to strap an ankle to that of another person and dash fifty metres was …
Encouragement
By Christopher Spriggs of Heads Up Now They kept coming, so we kept cheering. Sometimes they were solo, sometimes they ran in clusters, feet kicking up dust, shadows shrunken by a fierce sun. Each person had a race number pinned to their front, a number now blotted by sweat, dirt and water. Their number as indecipherable as their thoughts or …
Let’s talk about anger
By Christopher Spriggs of ‘Heads Up Now’ I want to talk about anger, because we are confused by this. I’ve worked as a coach with hundreds of teenagers, and many adults, over the last 20 years and this issue comes up a lot. Especially for us guys, but not exclusively. It is not “anger management” that we need, it is …