Parenting Conversations.

The husband and I had that conversation, the one about our big boy and his disdain for formal sports training.

We took a step back and realised that it's been 3 years, 3 long years of endeavouring to find a sport that our big boy liked. We'd done swimming, football (more than a year) and most recently, badminton. All, dead ends. 

Drawing on both our personal experiences, we came to the conclusion that continuing to push him into a sport would run the risk of backfiring and killing any interest he has, for life. 

He's currently active in school and plays a range of sports at break times: basketball, touch rugby, football, among others. He loves it. As far as exposure goes, he is getting that. He's perfectly happy the way that things are, to play a sport for the sake of the sport itself, not because he has to. 

It therefore makes sense for us to give him that space to enjoy sports on his own terms. No more classes for him. It's taken us awhile to get there, but this is us meeting him where he is and parenting based on the specific needs of this one child. Not exactly what I'd wanted (I'm making my peace with that), but it's what he needs.