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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 296944" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>"You've made a committment. Others are counting on you. This isn't about you and me, it's about you and the rest of your team, and your coach. I'm not fighting your battles for you. I'll drive you to practice but YOU have to explain to the coach, and your team mates, why you want to drop out."</p><p></p><p>I also NEVER buy new clothes or new equipment if I can get out of it. I'll either borrow it or buy it second hand, or rent it. Even clothing - difficult child 3 is hard on things. I feel easier about throwing out 2nd hand gear that only cost me a dollar or two, than having to chuck out perfectly good gear that's hardly been broken in and which cost megabucks.</p><p></p><p>When difficult child 3 enrolled in touch football, we had to pay $10 to HIRE the team shirt (a plain coloured t-shirt with his team number on the back). At the end of the season the shirt went back. I LIKE touch football! It's a great game and also really good grounding/training for just about any other football game.</p><p></p><p>We'd have been back for the next season of touch, only he had graduated out of it. When he's a bit older he can join an adult team. Meanwhile - touch is a game kids can quickly organise in an instant. All they need is a patch of ground to play on, a football of sorts (soccer ball or standard oval football) and a handful of kids to play on either team. They decide where the goal posts should be (a mark on the ground perhaps) and then off they go. A lot of running, a lot of strategy, a lot of passing the ball - but no tackling. Instead of a tackle, if you touch the opponent with the ball he has to hand the ball back. A goal is gained only by the player running with the ball and putting it down over the goal line, without getting tipped on the way.</p><p></p><p>A safe game for kids but very fast-paced. Great training, as I said. And often in Australia when people have got together for a relaxing outdoors day, someone will get up a game of touch.</p><p></p><p>So maybe you could organise something like that for him on a weekend? It could be a pleasant break for him from the heavy training, he's still training but also getting all the thrills of a good game. Ask the coach perhaps?</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 296944, member: 1991"] "You've made a committment. Others are counting on you. This isn't about you and me, it's about you and the rest of your team, and your coach. I'm not fighting your battles for you. I'll drive you to practice but YOU have to explain to the coach, and your team mates, why you want to drop out." I also NEVER buy new clothes or new equipment if I can get out of it. I'll either borrow it or buy it second hand, or rent it. Even clothing - difficult child 3 is hard on things. I feel easier about throwing out 2nd hand gear that only cost me a dollar or two, than having to chuck out perfectly good gear that's hardly been broken in and which cost megabucks. When difficult child 3 enrolled in touch football, we had to pay $10 to HIRE the team shirt (a plain coloured t-shirt with his team number on the back). At the end of the season the shirt went back. I LIKE touch football! It's a great game and also really good grounding/training for just about any other football game. We'd have been back for the next season of touch, only he had graduated out of it. When he's a bit older he can join an adult team. Meanwhile - touch is a game kids can quickly organise in an instant. All they need is a patch of ground to play on, a football of sorts (soccer ball or standard oval football) and a handful of kids to play on either team. They decide where the goal posts should be (a mark on the ground perhaps) and then off they go. A lot of running, a lot of strategy, a lot of passing the ball - but no tackling. Instead of a tackle, if you touch the opponent with the ball he has to hand the ball back. A goal is gained only by the player running with the ball and putting it down over the goal line, without getting tipped on the way. A safe game for kids but very fast-paced. Great training, as I said. And often in Australia when people have got together for a relaxing outdoors day, someone will get up a game of touch. So maybe you could organise something like that for him on a weekend? It could be a pleasant break for him from the heavy training, he's still training but also getting all the thrills of a good game. Ask the coach perhaps? Marg [/QUOTE]
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