Do you take your kids to football/rugby/hockey training when it is raining???

[LauraIngallsWilder]

We are newbies at sports training - ds is loving hockey and rugby

But I have no idea whether people still go if the weather is rubbish

Obviously if it is tipping it down its a no no
But what if it is raining constantly but not torrential - do people still go.............. and stand there in the rain while their kids run about

in the rain?

Ill carry out a statistical study of the other parents this evening but Im hazarding a guess that most are far more wimpish than I!

They have cars to drive in to get there for a start
And cars to sit in for the duration

I do not

I'm in Wales too!! So I can sympathise a bit - but I still make mine go (also have 4 yr old DS2 who plays on the side lines with a spare ball). Is there no-one whose car you can hop in when it does the nasty horizontal stingy stuff?

get involved straight away fundraising for a nice cosy clubhouse with kitchen to make cofffee and bacon sarnies!

Kids do sports whatever the weather. DD (now 6) has ridden in hailstorms, sleet etc - sometimes when she was little (4 or 5) she'd have to do it during a show class and still keep smiling! She never complained - kids don't unless adults do first!

You will stand in the rain for 2 hours bitching about the ref with the other parents, while glowing with pride watching your child run about, causing injury to others.

It's great fun, honest!

Yes which is one reason why we have encouraged ds and dd to play rugby (clubhouse, tea and bacon sarnies) rather than football (no shelter, cold wet field)

Yes, all weather