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Tackle football for my GIRL, being a minority,lots
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<blockquote data-quote="envisablepuppet" data-source="post: 84130" data-attributes="member: 585"><p>Well, the first part of your question I have experience with but my difficult child was in high school at the time. Her thing was wrestling. She ended up lettering in it. She really wanted to do football as well. husband said no tg. He said he wasn't real comfortable with her wrestling but was drawing the line at football. He told her it was a guarantee she would get hurt. It is a boys game and to rough.</p><p></p><p>Boys grow differently then girls. Our difficult child was stronger then a lot of the boys when she was younger but the boys catch up at some point. Our difficult child at the time was about 5'3 and weighed between 115 and 130. Football is a very rough sport and the boys will surpass her strength very quickly. </p><p></p><p>Unless she was just a kicker for field goals or something similar where there wouldn't be much physical contact to her I don't think I'd let her do it simply because of the injury aspect of it. Not sure a good coach would play her much either.</p><p></p><p>husband also told difficult child if he ever thought she was doing it because of the boys he would make her drop out. That was why we thought she wanted to do it in the beginning. We were very surprised when we found out she was quite good at it and the boys weren't really her motivation to join it. She even set a record for her school.</p><p></p><p>They always set out to hurt her tho because boys REALLY resent girls invading what they consider a no girls allowed sport. Not her teammates so much as her opponents. There was only one time the coach made her forfeit a match because he knew the boy would deliberately hurt her and she was to outclassed to prevent it. Her dad had to step in and back-up the coach because difficult child was very upset about being withdrawn from the match. She didn't want to be made to look like a sissy lol. </p><p></p><p>To this day she only competes with boys/men. She considers girls little to no competition when it comes to physical activities. She even works with a 90% men crew now.</p><p></p><p>As for the other part of your question, I live in a very small town. We had/have very few noncaucasians here. The few we do have seem to have fit in ok. The two I know, married local ppl and were pretty popular as far as I could tell. This is an outside looking in kind of view tho. I know the girl (asian) moved to the city and may have divorced. She is a real sweetheart everyone hated to see her go.</p><p></p><p>I think some small towns are probably pretty limiting for most noncaucasian kids as far as dating is concerned. If they grew up there I think it might be easier so I'm not sure if a move would be a good idea personaly. What does she think of the idea?</p><p></p><p>I did get the feeling your town was small? Good luck and hope you can find something helpful in this very long post :smile:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="envisablepuppet, post: 84130, member: 585"] Well, the first part of your question I have experience with but my difficult child was in high school at the time. Her thing was wrestling. She ended up lettering in it. She really wanted to do football as well. husband said no tg. He said he wasn't real comfortable with her wrestling but was drawing the line at football. He told her it was a guarantee she would get hurt. It is a boys game and to rough. Boys grow differently then girls. Our difficult child was stronger then a lot of the boys when she was younger but the boys catch up at some point. Our difficult child at the time was about 5'3 and weighed between 115 and 130. Football is a very rough sport and the boys will surpass her strength very quickly. Unless she was just a kicker for field goals or something similar where there wouldn't be much physical contact to her I don't think I'd let her do it simply because of the injury aspect of it. Not sure a good coach would play her much either. husband also told difficult child if he ever thought she was doing it because of the boys he would make her drop out. That was why we thought she wanted to do it in the beginning. We were very surprised when we found out she was quite good at it and the boys weren't really her motivation to join it. She even set a record for her school. They always set out to hurt her tho because boys REALLY resent girls invading what they consider a no girls allowed sport. Not her teammates so much as her opponents. There was only one time the coach made her forfeit a match because he knew the boy would deliberately hurt her and she was to outclassed to prevent it. Her dad had to step in and back-up the coach because difficult child was very upset about being withdrawn from the match. She didn't want to be made to look like a sissy lol. To this day she only competes with boys/men. She considers girls little to no competition when it comes to physical activities. She even works with a 90% men crew now. As for the other part of your question, I live in a very small town. We had/have very few noncaucasians here. The few we do have seem to have fit in ok. The two I know, married local ppl and were pretty popular as far as I could tell. This is an outside looking in kind of view tho. I know the girl (asian) moved to the city and may have divorced. She is a real sweetheart everyone hated to see her go. I think some small towns are probably pretty limiting for most noncaucasian kids as far as dating is concerned. If they grew up there I think it might be easier so I'm not sure if a move would be a good idea personaly. What does she think of the idea? I did get the feeling your town was small? Good luck and hope you can find something helpful in this very long post [img]:smile:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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