My DS is in year 6 at a large competitive primary school. Our DS has always had his hand up and volunteered for everything going since year 1. He has tried for football, rugby, cricket, basketball, tri-golf, school council, athletics etc etc but to no avail. The school normally has two teams for most things and he has never been picked for anything at all. The school usually do well in most events so those picked are clapped in assembly, have their photos taken for the news letter and newspaper, have time off school for various events and swagger around the playground in sports clothes eating sweets or lollies (in hot weather) bought by the school and are sort of hero worshipped by my DS, the other boys in the class and the school.
We are not naive and don't believe he is the best footballer or the fastest runner, he is probably middling and more academic than sporting but he does enjoy sport, is well behaved, works hard at school and is still keen to represent his school in his final year. Even if he was picked as a reserve he would have been absolutely over the moon. He once even said why do they always pick the badly behaved children to represent the school? As parents we haven't intervened, have taught him to not give up, advised him to keep trying and reminded him of all his good qualities and encouraged these. He has a couple of interests out of school but his confidence is low due to this. Any ideas how to help? Last year a few kids cottoned on to the fact that he had never been picked for anything and teased him about this. We told him to ignore this but he often dwells on this and gets upset about it at home.
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Always the same kids picked for everything throughout school
Brighteyes27 · 13/01/2015 13:42
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