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6 year old ds quitting everything

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Emski76 · 23/05/2014 15:56

Hi. My ds1 is 6.5 years old. He's a sensitive, fairly quite, gentle child. He has been playing football on a Saturday morning for around 8 months and now wants to quit as they mix age groups now and he finds it too rough. I tried to convince him to keep going but when I took him Saturday he refused to join in so after 30 minutes of cajoling, I gave in. As I'm not keen on him quitting things we made a deal that he could quit Saturday football but must continue with after school football on a Friday afternoon. I've now had a call from school saying he's upset because he doesn't want to do football. I explained the situation and they were happy for him to stay and watch. We've already paid for next term but do I make him go or leave it.
By the way, he would also quit his swimming lessons if I let him and just wants to play on the iPad the whole time he's at home!

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Emski76 · 28/05/2014 13:07

Thank you so much Sugarhoops. Lovely to hear someone elses first born boy is just like mine!!
The inability to entertain himself is so exhausting sometimes. Occasionally we can set him up with an activity then leave him to it but most of the time he mopes about. His 3 year old can play alone for hours and doesn't seem to need much stimulation at all!
I completely agree ref clubs and things. DS1 went to a few football fun days with a man who used to coach his Saturday football and was so unhappy to go and got upset during the day there that I stopped sending him.
He too ,tells me he's rubbish at football etc. Actually are we sure we're not talking about the same boy???!!!
Thank you so much for your post

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sugarhoops · 28/05/2014 16:07

Ha! yes emski76 - your initial post did seem like you were describing my son too!!

We also set our DS up with activities to do, he literally lasts 5minutes then wants to move onto something else. Or we'll play a game with him, which he loves, then we'll say "right, mummy has to go do some stuff now so you can keep playing on your own for a bit".....but within 5mins he's hanging around saying he's bored. Arghhh! We do love him dearly! I blame myself - I must've played with him WAAAAAY too much as a baby, hence he's got used to that!

Hey ho - I guess it'll come with age & maturity. In the meantime, I just need to keep enjoying the fact he always want to be hanging around mummy and daddy, as i'm sure in less than 5 years time he'll want nothing to do with us!!

Emski76 · 28/05/2014 17:35

Too true, Sugarhoops, guess we should enjoy their company while we can.
Thanks again x

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