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My son wasn't competitive at sports and after a couple of comments from a football coach he wouldn't go. Pity some coaches would just let kids participate doesn't have to always be about been the best or winning all the time. |
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Certainly something I would encourage and support my future offspring towards.
I had the opposite experiance to your son Steph had some fantastic coaches in all the sports I played , made great friends and it was always an escape from more stressful aspects of youth |
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"My son wasn't competitive at sports and after a couple of comments from a football coach he wouldn't go. Pity some coaches would just let kids participate doesn't have to always be about been the best or winning all the time."
very true. Also you'll find children develop at different rates at sports. Having fun and taking part are the main things.
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"Certainly something I would encourage and support my future offspring towards.
I had the opposite experiance to your son Steph had some fantastic coaches in all the sports I played , made great friends and it was always an escape from more stressful aspects of youth"
Great to hear. |
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"My son wasn't competitive at sports and after a couple of comments from a football coach he wouldn't go. Pity some coaches would just let kids participate doesn't have to always be about been the best or winning all the time."
This is Ireland they openly admit if Messi was in Ireland growing up he would have been told he was too small, taken off, and a bigger child put in that can push people off the ball so that the coach could get a win rather than grow them into the sport. |
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"It's all about kids learning, time to time. Make mistakes, learn from them. "
Thats true, and there are brilliant youth coaches, its easy to make generalisations based on the past, but you see huge effort put into getting girls to play and stuff these days so its clearly not as bad as the old days.
Saying that, i think I would put my kids in dance and gymnastics. |
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"It's all about kids learning, time to time. Make mistakes, learn from them.
Thats true, and there are brilliant youth coaches, its easy to make generalisations based on the past, but you see huge effort put into getting girls to play and stuff these days so its clearly not as bad as the old days.
Saying that, i think I would put my kids in dance and gymnastics."
If I may add... Please give your kids a chance to participate at any discipline. They develop very fast as I can see my kids and they change their minds time to time
My 10 years old daughter is very competitive young lady but also likes participate in any charity event. To be honest she does few things better than me like ballet, playing chess. My 5 years old son is like Steph's son. I think the reason might be the divorce and his father not being all the time with son. Life  |
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My day job centres on coaching children but errs more on the side of me playing games all day 
Although for the better part of six years I've been coaching youth football at my local club and with the current group of kids the best thing has been seeing how far they've come over the years! Both ability wise and just in themselves.
We always make a point to end training with a silly game, something they'd play in the playground at school, just to remind them they're more than just teammates  |
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"Are your children involved in sports giving them lots of physical exercise/activity? I think it's great for kids. It's also good for a social aspect as in it makes them friends for life  . "
Sports or gadgets , sports or gadgets ???
Theres only 1 winner |
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"Are your children involved in sports giving them lots of physical exercise/activity? I think it's great for kids. It's also good for a social aspect as in it makes them friends for life .
Sports or gadgets , sports or gadgets ???
Theres only 1 winner "
Ye, sport. |
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One kid into gaa and other into Xbox.
If you saw how much the Xbox kid jumps around when playing, you'd wonder how he still managed to play the game and be thinking that he's getting the same/ more exercise  |
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I think all should be encouraged to take up some sport. It's not all about competitiveness. It is about pushing oneself and working at something physically active. As parents I think it's our responsibility and shouldn't expect others to do it for our kids. I've three who were competitive and one not. They all go encouraged to do it and still do. They all swim, and all canoe, the none competitive one goes to the gym and others involved in competitive into their twenties. Not doing it because someone else didn't help or encourage isn't a good reason; as parents that's really our responsibility. |
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"I think all should be encouraged to take up some sport. It's not all about competitiveness. It is about pushing oneself and working at something physically active. As parents I think it's our responsibility and shouldn't expect others to do it for our kids. I've three who were competitive and one not. They all go encouraged to do it and still do. They all swim, and all canoe, the none competitive one goes to the gym and others involved in competitive into their twenties. Not doing it because someone else didn't help or encourage isn't a good reason; as parents that's really our responsibility."
I didn't expect help from a coach but when a coach tells an 8 yr old "you are f-ing useless and you should have stayed at home" in front of his mates what do you expect. Happened more than once.
My son participated in plenty of other things but not every kid is sports orientated. This is over 15 years ago. Things have changed a lot now a friend is a coach of kids football and he definitely let's everyone play and encourages it as fun and been part of a team.
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"Saying that, i think I would put my kids in dance and gymnastics.
ah stop.!"
I wasn't joking.
You may think its lame, you might even think its gay. But I can guarantee a gymnast guy will pull a girl quicker in a bar than a guy who plays football. Same as a gymnast girl will quicker than a girl who plays tag rugby.
The dance will make them light on their toes.
With them two as a base they could move onto any other sport. They could be stunt actors, action actors, they could transition to boxing, karate, kung fu, they could go into diving, swimming, football whatever really.
Plus they would be able to dance the night away. |
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