Why do some kids hate PE?

[Enid]

and shouldn't we be encouraging them to enjoy it rather than helping them bunk off?

enid's thought for the day.

I once had a sprained wrist and had a note from my dad excusing me from football. The teacher went off her head, moaning that a sprained wrist didn't stop you from playing football. I said I could injure it further, which promted her to give me detention for answering back.

During the game a friend actually fell over on her arm and broke it.

So wanted to say SEE TOLD YOU SO

MRS TURNER

Tatt
What a great idea! Introducing the martial arts in PE would be fantastic. Or, at least a range of options. Or even vouchers to use for lessons of the child's choice outside school hours - swimming, martial arts, scouting/camping/climbing, team league fees (for those who enjoy team sports).

cold: posted same thing in the original thread.

The subject should be more creative / interesting / original, and BE STREAMED (or at least tailored).

Also, the 40 mins per week or whatever is a poor way IMHO of inspiring a love of exercise and sports which (IMO) comes from integrating it into a lifestyle, so I'd agree cycling weekends / walking weekends / ski holidays / climbing club etc. would be the way to go.

There's so much fun sport events (ice skating, dancing has been mentioned etc.)... how come it was always so f*cking horrible ???????????

If you think the experience of PE as girls was bad... you should try it as a boy, LOL. Agggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I was rather badly co-ordinated and was utterly dreadful at PE; I was also appallingly self-conscious about my body; and I loathed the cold. All of which made the weekly stint on the hockey field utter torture.

Whereas now, as I've mentioned on the other thread, I do 60 lengths of the pool regularly, I do pilates and I walk with my daughters for an hour and a half every morning.

As the offspring of two PE teachers, I took every possible opportunity to skive games. One year we had the option of learning typing instead of hockey - hence my proficiency on MN!

Actually most of the PE experience could be summed up for me as Public Wobbling. Too horrible.

My DS hates it already because he can't get his kit on in time and he puts it on inside out, back to front and upside down. Then when it's over and it's time to put his other clothes back on, he can't do put his uniform back on competently and walks around with his trousers back to front, and sweater inside out for the rest of the day.

I'm sure his teacher thinks it's just because I'm lazy and can't be bothered to teach him how to do his clothes properly. But it's not, it's because he just doesn't have very good dexterity, even though he's 6.

pmsl at Public Wobbling

You know what I mean.

at least they get a kit these days - we had to do it in navy blue knickers

I was a useless runner, loved netball - you have to take the good with the bad.

And you do 'compete' in other subjects - you know darn well who is going to do well in a maths test (it wasn't me!), who has a knack for languages. You can't shine at everything but you can try everything.

My ds hates it and is rubbish at it because he's dispraxic.
Luckilly the school he's at now is wonderful supportive, even has a D team for all the no-hopers to have a go if they want to (not that they know they're no-hopers obv), so he's beginning to enjoy it and feel encouraged.
Whereas at his last school, a loathsome Beefy Botham-alike would sneer and bellow at him, and he would go to any lengths to avoid it.

Well I didn't really hate PE at school I was OK at games, if a little aggressive I used to hack peoples ankles at hockey, barge them out of the way at Netball etc etc It was only in my uncontrolled enthusiasm that always got me in trouble. Now I happened to like the cross country run though!! and I preferred non-team sprots tbh. All I hope that I can get my kids to enjoy sports.

I have already had issues with sports and dd1, she isn't too bad, but got upset becasue everyone else was faster than her at running (she is 6). Finally in one of the practices for sports day she won!! and was so pleased that she looked forward to sprots day again - only to cut her foot badly the night before and have to sit it out totally It meant I HAD to do the mothers race as she was feeling so bad!! All I can say is thank god that I wasn't the one who fell over, or came last phew

I agree with making PE more fun, I think it really gets bad in secondary schools, primary doesn't seem so bad.

Ds1 doesn't hate it...yet (but I think he takes after me in sporting ability so he may yet learn to loathe it).

I hated PE. Absolutely hated it. I was a skinny little thing, with matchstick legs, totally unco-ordinated, couldn't catch, couldn't throw, couldn't run. I had to endure the weekly humiliation of team picking, left standing there while the teams fought over who didn't have me "oh we had moo last week - it's your turn." Hockey...they used to make me bully off (bully...good word) against this ox of a girl called Lisa Rogerson - she'd glower down at me and say "you just let me get it, OK?" I did. We used to play in the snow - the teacher would refuse to let us even wear our school jumpers - just little aertex shirts and short skirts - she had a big puffa jacket with a hot water bottle tucked inside it.
Rounders, netball, tennis...I hated it all. Thank the lord we had no country to cross, I would have hated that too. And communal showers...lonelymum, much sympathy. I was the only girl with no boobs and no pubes - total humiliation (I didn't start my periods til I was 16) - it was like walking into the lion's den walking into that shower.

The only sport I had any aptitude for was swimming - and any enthusiam for that was soon knocked out of me by a sadistic male swimming teacher who gave you two minutes to get dressed/undressed then got his jollies by going along the side of the pool drawing back all the cubicle curtains - whatever state of undress you happened to be in.

Uuuugh, I still shudder thinking about - I did an extra O' level in art simply because it meant I no longer had to do PE.

Thankyou for listening. That was very cathartic

PE at my school was made worse by the bulling. The PE teachers tended to ignore this or to some extent encourage it. I was the girl good at maths and science and PE changing rooms were somewhere to fear. Therefore I hated PE and PE teachers.

My dd1 has been diagnosed as dyspraxic and I have been warned that if the PE lessons have teams she is likely to be picked on in that no one will want her on their side. This will do nothing for her self confidence which will impact on the rest of her classes. I fear a pattern developing.

I agree that they should give our kids the skill to do exercise which they enjoy and will keep them fit. Team games should be for those with the ability to enjoy them, the rest of us poor souls should be given exercise which keep us happy and well.

The only thing I disliked about 'PE' was hockey in the freezing cold. We'd all be there in tiny skirts freezing our butts off while the teacher wore a ski suit and told us to jump up and down to get warm!!

Yeah waht was it about those sadist teachers who wouldn't let up wear tracksuits n the cold??? WTF

Is it different now? Does anyone have teenagers who STILL have to wear completely inappropriate uniforms for PE?? Or can they wear tracksuits in the winternow?

I think PE as it stands puts a lot of kids off exercising at all, something that is having dire consequences for their health.

Is it compulsory?

I'd rather make the decision - together w/my child - about the form of exercise she takes, rather than have something she doesn't like forced on her.

I couldn't run
I couldn't hit a ball
I couldn't kick a ball
I couldn't climb a rope
I couldn't jump more than 2 feet into a sandpit
Was always last to be picked for the team
Was always last in every race
Fell off the gym horse thingy and broke wrist

I have fond memories of PE

I couldn't run
I couldn't hit a ball
I couldn't kick a ball
I couldn't climb a rope
I couldn't jump more than 2 feet into a sandpit
Was always last to be picked for the team
Was always last in every race
Fell off the gym horse thingy and broke wrist

I have fond memories of PE

lol Public Wobbling

isnt it weird though that we all as mums feel that we would like to decide what form of PE our kids do.

do you think our mothers ever bothered worrying about it?

ours: I had a bad accident with a gym horse too...

Can't remember what exactly...

B*stard piece of equipment

yes I was scared of the gym horse

Used to like Pirates though before it was banned (you had to use all the gym equipment without touching the floor - eg swing from ropes to wall bars etc). Nadine C fell off the top of the wall bars and broke her shoulder so badly the bone stuck out - Ace!

coudl never climba a rope
Julie rickerby got her front teeth wahcked out by a hockey stick