Long title, but I hope it explains.
Our boy is the very opposite of sporty despite us always being encouraging. He's also very small for his age which probably contributes to his lack of interest in playing.
In secondary school he obviously has to join in games (rugby and football), but this is totally new and alien to him; he'd much rather read or draw.
We've got him his new kit etc including his first pair of football boots (much to the amusement of his younger brother, 4, who's had footie boots for over a year!), and taken him out for a kickabout, but he just totally shuts down.
He likes swimming and has plenty of energy for running around parks etc, but team games he'll just reject totally.
So any advice to help us/him get into it?
He's starting a new school and he'll do well academically, but we don't want him appearing to be negative/unenthusiastic at sport....it'll just create a bad fist impression, obviously. I mean, he couldn't just not do, for example history, if he didn't fancy it, could he?
Anyway, I'll leave it with you, but we need a strategy to get him to open up and at least start to join in with PE/games...any thoughts/experience with non sporty ones when they start secondary?
Many thanks in advance