If you were helping out, would you help your child's team before another?
By gapeach65
@gapeach65 (805)
United States
June 23, 2007 11:55am CST
My sister told me the other day that she thinks her 5 year old daughter is going through separation anxiety. She said the girls are taking swimming lessons and her oldest (the 5 year old) is on the swim team. She helps out with a boys team not her daughter's. Now, she thinks the separation anxiety is because she misses Grammy (our mom, who passed away 4 months ago, in Feb). They saw her every other Saturday. I think it's more that her daughter sees mom with other children and not her.
If you were going to help out with team sports, would you help out with your child's team or another? If you think your child won't listen to you, then you shouldn't help with any team, wait till they're a little older (when they may not want you around), beacuse when they're little, they don't understand why you're not helping them.
2 responses
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
25 Jun 07
I guess here, the only sports teams parents help out with, are our own child's team. Our sports sytem is not set up where parents are expected to help other teams.
However, we are expcted to help out a great deal with our own childrns teams, some sports more than others. When my daughter did Little Athletics many years ago, parents had to do all the scoring & umpiring.
Now my daughter does competitive swimming. At swimming meets, I have to do time keeping, as a representative of my daughters team.
At swimming training, I always help out other kids, not just my own, with needing their water bottles filled, etc.
I suspect yor friend daughter is a little jealous. All her Mum can do is explain to her 5 yr old old, that it is nice to help other children too, & that she is being a good mummy by helping other people.
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
24 Jun 07
Your neice could be going through a combination of things. At that age I'm sure she's aware of the lose in the family, not just how it effected her but her mother and even you or others in the family.
Add to that seeing her mother paying special attention to other children could be even harder for her - I agree, help with her team or at least don't do it in front of her where she has to watch.
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