Reply to Explain to me your thought process (parents) with being highly competitive with your swimmer

Forum Index » Swimming and Diving

Reply to "Explain to me your thought process (parents) with being highly competitive with your swimmer"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I think some of the time you get on the train to crazy town without realizing where you have headed.  E.g. take a kid who possibly physically matures early/ has a good summer swim birthday, etc- they are doing really well in summer swim.  So you the parent get used to your kid doing well, you like the accolades you get from other parents etc.  You sign your kid up for club swimming.  You realize they aren't as good as some other kids- so you sign them up for private lessons.   Maybe you make swim related friends, or get involved somehow yourself.  You are becoming more and more invested in your kids success without totally realizing it.  Your kid starts not doing as well- so you sign them up for even more lessons, more intense practice, new coach- what have you.   Your kid is the compliant type- they don't ever say 'mom I don't want to swim anymore.'  The kid does't want to disappoint the parent.
FWIW- I think this is somewhat more likely to happen with kids who are not overall super athletic, but are good at swimming.  The kids who are strong athletes will often move into a different sport, or will focus on swimming, but it is more kid driven than parent driven.[/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