My ten years old got into soccer recently and he’s getting good at it, except, he has this paranoia that he’ll get blind (or will have severe eye damage) if he traces the ball through the air against a sunny backdrop. Because of this he won’t practice in the evening and this is when most training happens.
We had an eclipse recently and I think he took the “don’t look at the sun” mantra way too far and I don’t know how to undo that.
Please help!!!
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If his eyes are actually “following the ball”, then he’s NEVER EVEN STARING at the sun.
Pretty sure that’s a succinct and descriptive explanation.
“Eyes on the ball, boy!” That should be good enough. Peripheral Sun exposure for short times isn’t damaging, much in the same way getting an x ray at the dentist won’t give you cancer. If he’s JUST tracking the ball through the air, he’s got no problem. If goals are being scored behind him because he can’t stop looking, THEN there’s a problem.
Maybe explain it like food. Kids LOVE shitty junk food, but you tell them all the time how it’s okay once every one or two weeks, but all the time is bad. You’re eyes passing over the sun for half a second tracking the ball isn’t going to cause any issues that you can’t heal from. In the other hand, smoking cigarettes for 30 years will fuck you up. Bodies heal.
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