How to get kids used to playing in the heat?

[Anonymous]

Tournament this weekend has been hot! How do you get your kids used to playing in the heat? How hard do you push when kids are young? DD is only 9. Good player but melts in the heat. Doesn’t move her feet, stands still, can’t run a ton I don’t know how hard I should be pushing her to just push through.

[Anonymous]

Water breaks.

[Anonymous]

Ask your coach to bring towels in an Ice bucket. And connect it to a mister fan that’s battery powered.

Seriously heat stroke and effects from heat can be counteracted with proper precautions. We always had parents bring the red tent from dicks as well.

[Anonymous]

Op - we do all those things. She still cannot acclimate to the heat. Other girls are running the whole game. She is dragging. The difference between her play in cooler temperatures and the heat is very apparent.

[Anonymous]

Then don't make her play. She's 9, not a Marine.

[Anonymous]

You should be doing everything pp mentioned abt cooling and pre hydrating but if she’s usually an engaged player then you should absolutely not be asking her to “push through.”

What you’d be asking her to push through would be her body’s early warning to help her not die! In fact, what you should be doing is reminding her that when people get (and die) of heat stroke, it’s not like the whole team keels over (and thus she should be aware of her own body and not what everyone else seems to be able to tolerate.) -physician

[Anonymous]

Why are you making her play in a summer league? Thats just cruel around here.

Some people are more sensitive to the heat. She can't help it, are you trying to give her heat stroke?

[Anonymous]

It is cruel to do this to a 9 year old. What’s the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you making her play in a summer league? Thats just cruel around here.

Some people are more sensitive to the heat. She can't help it, are you trying to give her heat stroke?

Op - we aren’t in a summer league. She has a tournament this weekend (there is a huge one in Maryland and a lot of teams are playing).

Also our games at the beginning of the season are in August/early September . It’s hot.

[Anonymous]

As a kid, I could not operate in heat like this. I have two boys, and I have been amazed at how they can still play full steam ahead in extreme cold and extreme heat. I remember one soccer tournament in the snow. My son got in the car, and his feet and hands hurt so badly from the cold that he started moaning. But watching him during the game, you would never guess that he was uncomfortable.

I think some of us can, and some can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then don't make her play. She's 9, not a Marine.

Agree. Her body is conserving energy to try to cool itself down. Perhaps summer soccer is not for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a kid, I could not operate in heat like this. I have two boys, and I have been amazed at how they can still play full steam ahead in extreme cold and extreme heat. I remember one soccer tournament in the snow. My son got in the car, and his feet and hands hurt so badly from the cold that he started moaning. But watching him during the game, you would never guess that he was uncomfortable.

I think some of us can, and some can't.

I also can't. I get a bad headache and then pass out when I overheat. It's not as if I can build a tolerance - I've passed out in heat since I was three years old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then don't make her play. She's 9, not a Marine.

Agree. Her body is conserving energy to try to cool itself down. Perhaps summer soccer is not for her.

+2.

[Anonymous]

Don’t make her play an outdoor sport, plenty of other options

[Anonymous]

Seems like she's not cut out for soccer.