Reply to HS sports question - kid is a novice at best

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "HS sports question - kid is a novice at best - help"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I will try to keep this short-ish. My daughter is not hugely athletic, but did participate in one sport for a couple of years and then COVID hit, you know the drill. She signed up for the sport in HS and went to the first voluntary practice session last week. The other girls were so far ahead of her that she felt intimidated and doesn't want to go back, and I get it. Bummed for her, but I get it. She did get a word of encouragement from another student the next day, but even so.

Question is, how do you handle this? I have a character flaw of being a bitter ender - would stick it out no matter what, but I have realized that may not be a virtue and sometimes it's ok to throw in the towel.

As she moves into high school I want her to manage her own stuff and she will, but that doesn't mean that we don't have conversations about how to quit something, etc.

She's not on a/the team yet, but in this situation would you just let her ghost (I am very uncomfortable with that) or email the coaches and ask for honest feedback. There's a possibility of a freshmen team if there are enough kids so I hate for her to totally drop out. I have a feeling that these offered practice sessions are treated as mandatory by the JV and Varsity teams and that is fine/good. But if it's hopeless for her I would rather know.

Ugh. For not trying to be a helicopter parent I feel like one of those huge ones with the double rotors right now.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics