CKinnard wrote:human909 wrote:I can't emphasis the above enough. Why would you waste your time on sports or activities that you don't enjoy?
Regarding comments about team sports, I think people are massively overrating the benefits of 'team' sports compared to non 'team' sports. Just because they have the descriptor 'team' doesn't mean it promotes learn of the soft skills that adults associate with teamwork.
In my day, there was cricket and rugby league at primary school. There was tennis too, but that was not 'manly'.
No doubt there was many sports I was better at and would have enjoyed 10x more.
When you are a kid, as well as learning to work as a team towards a common goal, it is also important to be flexible, and adapt to situations you have no control of.
I whined for a few hot summers about my parents not having a swimming pool, but realized eventually whining wasn't going to make a pool appear.
Life isn't about throwing a spack attack every time you don't get your way, with your parents, or others.
And that making the most of what is, is more opportunity than most have.
Another angle on this for the parents is to use bike riding as a reward for a more desirable behavior - say, for every exam aced, he gets 3 hours extra bike time.
Back in my day of primary school, I had to play football (VFL style back in the 70's) for 3 year, hated every single second of it. Moved onto Basketball and played that, which I loved (wasn't necessarily any good), but for both none of my friends were in my teams, so I'd play then that was that. Thing is you know what I didn't do after my 3 years of playing football were up, ever have anything to do with VFL/AFL ever again, if someone wants to watch it in my house, they can go somewhere else.
But you know what else i did, not as a team sport, was ride my bike, everyone rode their bikes, now the 70's and 80's were a different time for sure, but we all rode bikes, we had fun, we socialised, made loads of friends, both from school and just around, it was great. I made zero friends playing football.
While not a team sport, my mum made me have swimming lessons from when I was, I don't even know, little, until I was like 16, another thing I absolutely hated... all those years... still can't swim.
I say if you you don't like doing these sports, then yeah, don't do them.
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