My son loves being a part of every aspect of school - throws himself into everything even if he’s not great at it. He’s very little and not great at football - he does a football club and loves playing it but is just not very good at it! Generally we have a heigh ho approach to it and big up his strengths, which to be fair, mostly revolve around his amazingly enthusiastic approach to life and his wonderful behaviour. He’s in year 2 and today they had football trials to see who is going to play in a football tournament sometime after half term. On the walk in this morning, he was realistic - ‘I’d like to play in it but I probably won’t because I’m not as good as so and so’ and he was pretty ok about it. On pick up, he was incredibly excited because the teacher had said, at the trials, that they would only take children who were well behaved and so my son is now delighted because he is ‘absolutely certain’ he’ll be picked. He won’t - I’m an ex-teacher - I know how it works. But this is playing some kind of heart squelching fkery with my mind - can I ask how do you lovely Mumsnetters out there deal with this heart fery!?