My son and sports, not a very good combination
I’ve said that before, my son is not a sporty boy. He tried Judo, Funk, Soccer and he gave up everything. The school program includes swimming as an additional activity to 4th grade but he doesn’t want to attend those classes. As it is an extra activity my son is not evaluated or graded for the activity so I made a formal request for him to be removed from the team.
Although I think sport is a very healthy part of his life, I feel I don’t have to force him to go and hear everyday that he wants to quit. Of course this is not an example of life, if one day he refuses to go to a certain class at school of course that is not even discussed.
Next school year he will go to 5th grade and he has physical class that he has to attend so next year there is no excuse and he just have to get used to go.
He’s a very active boy, he plays a lot of soccer during school breaks and after school, he runs and he plays other activities so I guess for now he just looks at sport class as an obligation and not pleasure. He even asked for sports gifts for his birthday and although he didn’t get want he wanted, he was pleased with a car race video game. He says it’s also a sport!
He’s 10, he is in 4th grade with only one teacher, next year he will be in 5th grade with around 10 different teachers. I guess this year I’m going to let him skip sport because next year responsibility will the king and time to play will be shorten. For now he is very into video games, online games and some traditional games.
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Don’t worry, a few years ago i was very much like your son… Even now so, but now nobody forces me to do sport