[quote=UCGal]I feel your pain, flu. I sucked at sports, and hope to have my kids suck less. We’ve got them in basketball (two different seasons, summer and winter), and baseball. (fall ball and spring ball). They both hated soccer from the get-go.
Despite them not being naturals, they *are* learning team work and their skills are improving. In basketball it helps that they are on the tall-side for their age.
My younger son is much more into baseball than the older son. He’s chosen catcher as his position and worked hard to improve his skills. My older son plays baseball for social reasons, not because he’s enjoying the game, just the comradery. I don’t care -he’s outside, being physical, learning to work on a team. Over time, he’ll improve.
I’m not sure what sport your daughter is playing – but my younger son’s basketball league has a girls team playing against the other boys teams. It’s a group of girls that have played as a team in multiple leagues (basically, they’re ringers). They were phenomenal. Go girl-power.[/quote]
She hates soccer (ok, well she says she hates it but didn’t really play on a team). She says she wanted to do basketball. But how she is when she’s playing with me is completely different when there’s a bunch of people. I guess part of it is personality…She doesn’t like confrontation. I think given the choices between winning and making the other team feel bad or having a tie, she’d rather have a tie….I think she took a little too seriously at school when they were told “winning isn’t everything”..One time I said “well, people don’t play to lose”….I made the mistake of initially not putting my kid in a competitive sport. I regret that… A little competition isn’t a bad idea. It builds character and goals to do better.
