Small, accessible book on G&T

[roisin]

It's superb. Buy it, read it, and then pass it on to your child's teacher.

Barry Hymer is inspirational and is full of creative and uplifting ideas.

(He has written other wonderful books on G&T, but most of them are very expensive: but worth getting hold of through your library if you can.)

one big difference is that football coaches are free to dump children who fail to live up to early promise- without being accused of having ruined their lives through failing to nurture their talent

parents who have children with talents in the sports have to learn to be fairly robust about it

not to mention that they have to expect to pay for any out-of-the-bog-standard-tuition themselves

dd's friend is a swimmer of possibly future Olympic standards; the school only offers swimming lessons until you can cover the width of the local pool; and noone will be blamed if she gets bored with swimming or fails to make the Olympic team

she is also an expert gymnast- but she still has to do the same boring PE lessons as everybody else

of course it would be lovely if her talent could be nurtured in school time- but it's not going to happen and she knows that perfectly well