What if your kid sucks at something they’re passionate about"
Heather Behrends could tell from an early age that her oldest son Jake wasn?t the most athletic child. He was a little slower than his friends and he wasn?t especially coordinated. Still, he played soccer, baseball and basketball, the latter of which he especially enjoyed. Two years ago, though, Jake, who was 10 at the time, started playing competitive basketball (he was at the age when everyone made the team) and while he practiced diligently, often shooting hoops in his driveway after school, his parents saw how hard it was for him to keep up. ?It was painful to watch him struggle,? says Behrends, a fitness instructor and parent blogger who lives just outside of Denver. ?I know he was trying so hard, but the kids were leaving him in the dust.? As the year progressed, Behrends and her husband saw that their son wasn?t improving, so they sat him down in their living room to tell him that he might want to consider playing something else. ?We said: ?I don?t think this is a fit,” she recalls. ?The way the sport is going and how older kids are playing it, it?s beyond what you?re really able to do.?
Behrends and her husband told Jake the truth because they were worried kids would start making fun of him for not keeping up?a valid parental concern. But they also worried that they?d be quashing a passion of his and he would give up a sport he loved, completely. Which he did. Even though his parents told him he could keep playing on a recreational level, a couple of days afte...
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