To play handball in My Child New Beginnings, the teacher recruits your child into the school team, you buy the equipment yourself, and the practice minigame is two downward swipes. Joining the club is free, but the kit is not - the handball itself costs 500 coins, the same price as a guitar - and the family that spends its last coins on the ball still has no kit.

How to play handball in My Child New Beginnings: signing up

The teacher is the one who starts it. She tells the class that the school handball team has free places, and the child says straight away that she wants in. The trials and training run through the whole week, but they are normally after school, so the guitar practice she already has has to be fitted around them. You can ask the club whether she could try other sports on other days.

Buying the equipment

  1. Open the village shop.

  2. Find the handball and the handball clothing.

  3. Pay for the ball. It costs 500 coins.

  4. Buy the kit as well, or borrow it from the club if money is short.

The club will lend the equipment, which is the option that keeps the chapter affordable when the week's wages have already gone. Where the coins come from is covered here.

The practice minigame

The practice minigame is bouncing the ball, and it is two gestures:

  1. Swipe down to bounce the ball.

  2. Swipe down again to send it into the green box to score.

At home the child does running and jumping drills for the sport, and you can offer to practise with her in the garden whenever she wants. The swing in the garden is available as well.

The first training day

The first session is a school session and she plays in the pivot position - in handball the pivot is where you stand when the opponent defends, and she says it was scary because the ball is sometimes thrown to the pivot.

Afterwards she wants to give up. Her own summary is blunt: "The ball is bouncing strangely, I can't score, and nobody is passing me the ball." Letting her quit or pushing her to continue is the key choice of the chapter, and you also coach her to control her anger during training and to look into the other players' eyes. Where the training fits into the week is here.

Practising at home on the weekend

The training schedule runs through the week after school, and the extra practice at home is what fills the weekend. The week's shape is here, and what else fills a weekend is here.

What the chapter reports

If you keep her in the sport, the chapter ends with her having become a handball player - "Thanks to you I became a famous handball player" - and the summary reports that you and 97% of your children agreed to start playing handball and that you helped 79% of your children not to give up. Her optimism, assertiveness and confidence all rise over the chapter.

FAQ

How do I join the handball team?

Buy the kit in the village shop, then take the first training day and practise at home at the weekend.

What does the school week look like?

Monday to Friday the child is at school and you are at work, and the weekend is open for family time. The school step can still stall on its own, so there is a separate guide for that.