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"I think it's called living your life through your kids. Pushing kids to achieve what they never could seems more common than is comfortable. Half of the knackers standing on the touchline could' even run for a bus. " There's such big money in professional sport and you hear stories of David Beckham's dad and many others pushing their kids to sporting greatness and them into a life of luxury. It comes out on the touchline and at home, it sickens me | |||
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"We experienced the opposite. It wasn't at football but at sports day, I would often be the only mum shouting encouragement at our kids while everyone else stood about politely." I'm the same. Whatever it was, if one of mine where competing; athletics, cheer leading competitions, school plays/performances, the rest of us were always the loudest with shouting encouragement during, or applause after. Can remember one of my lads being really upset coming last in the final of the county championships. Cheered up once I told him to look at it from the perspective that he's now officially the 8th fastest person for his age over 100m in Leicestershire. | |||
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"I think it's called living your life through your kids. Pushing kids to achieve what they never could seems more common than is comfortable. Half of the knackers standing on the touchline could' even run for a bus. " Sad, but so true, and ultimately futile..vast majority of children never become professional sportsmen ...and many just give up sport when old enough not to be bullied. Rugby is not immune from being over zealous , believe me Independent schools have their fair share of over expectant bullying parents. | |||
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"Part of the problem is that a lot of parents think their kid is the next David Beckham, what they don't realise is that very, very few kids will make it to the pro ranks. Even of those that do make it to academies I think the ratio is something daft like 1:5000 will make a living from the game. So what they should focus on is developing a love of the game that might mean their kids are playing in 20/30/40 years time and getting enjoyment from it. They certainly won't learn to love it if everytime they make a mistake they have a bunch of adults on the sidelines screaming at them!" | |||
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"I think it's called living your life through your kids. Pushing kids to achieve what they never could seems more common than is comfortable. Half of the knackers standing on the touchline could' even run for a bus. " | |||
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