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Poll: Kids and Sports
What sports do you plan on getting your children or potential future children involved in from a young age?
Re: Poll: Kids and Sports
We plan on getting them involved in the things we enjoy: golf, tennis, skiing, and swimming. We won't force them to compete or anything, but we go out and do sporty things quite often. We have every intention of dropping a potential future child off at ski school for the day while we are enjoying the mountain. Once they're at a point where they can come up with us we'll bring them along.
Plus, I think we'll probably do soccer when they are younger for the team sport aspect of it.
Ditto on getting them involved in things we enjoy and things we were involved in. Soccer, lacrosse, swimming, and hockey! Running/track is a huge sport in the country we are adopting from, so it would be neat to get our child involved there as well.
And seriously - who wouldn't want to get their child involved in curling?! DH and I are going to a curling match in a few weeks - I can't wait! We've looked into classes, but they are actually pretty expensive - so watching a match is good for now!
We plan on getting our involved in things we did growing up: soccer, basketball, baseball, football and karate. We'll also let our children explore their options in other areas, like skating, dancing and gymnastics. We won't push any one sport on them; we just want them to be active and involved.
H has visions of being DS' peewee football/baskeball coach, so we'll see how that goes.
I say softball/baseball and basketball. I wouldn't mind some soccer, too.
H says wrestling and football. I'm not a huge fan of either. I just love how he seems to think that only boys are in his future.
I anticipate having our children start out with team sports...soccer, basketball, baseball/softball, football, etc. Ultimately, they can choose what they continue with.
I played on a competitive soccer team in my hometown (where we just moved back to)...I would love to have a daughter play for that same team and for me to be the coach of that team. We'll see.
swimming - whether or not they ever swim competitively I plan on having them in swim lessons as soon as possible.
H and I were/are both runners and I think we would encourage our children to participate in fun runs, etc.
For everything else it would depend on what they show an interest in.
We will encourage interests in football, baseball and lacrosse (well, I'll encourage an interest in lacrosse at any rate, haha) but not necessarily as participants.
I can only hope that my children will want to become involved in athletics, but will definitely not force them. DH and I are (ahem, were) both athletes and hope to be active (as in doing a lot of things) parents. We will expose them to any sport they may be interested in, but we particularly like soccer, rowing, tennis and softball/baseball. I love basketball and volleyball but neither of us has ever played.
I know this is a controversial statement but I would not want my child to play football. I'm being a complete hypocrite, I know, because I love watching football and our children will be raised as HUGE Eagles fans, but I don't feel comfortable allowing them to play such a dangerous sport.
I really suck at staying pregnant
le sigh. Same here.
Football, soccer, wakeboarding and gymnastics are some we'll encourage, but ofc they can try whatever they want from ballet to figure skating as long as they are athletic!
By many people's standards it's not a sport, but we would get our kids SCUBA certified once they are old enough. It's an excellent physical workout, and divers have the ability to learn important things about the marine environment (and man's impact on it). I think it teaches respect and appreciation for the environment.
I danced (tap, ballet, pointe), but I would not encourage our potential children to dance. If they wanted to, fine, but I'm not suggesting it.
I don't care if our kids are interested in sports or not.. We will encourage them, but some kids simply have other interests. We will, however, force them to watch every NFL game thar airs on tv and make them like it
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We personally love watching football, DH played basketball, and I was a dancer but we don't have particular sports in mind for kids.
Izzy and Baby A ~ Adorable Punks
Well, I didn't really become "athletic" until college. Before that, I danced mostly and swam (not competitively--it wasn't big where I grew up), and played softball as well--but clearly I was more a dancer. Dh did a lot of things growing up--he did track, played soccer and skiied. Now, we almost primarily ride bicycles and run, so it'd be natural for us to get them into cycling early on. In fact, that is probably our only "must." Our future son/daughter will have a bicycle and he/she will learn to ride it! I would want the kid to take swimming lessons--but I think that's an important life skill to have. And unless DH's parents move from where they live now, it's inevitable our future child will learn to ski.
babycopz played both basketball and volleyball and gave up basketball this year to concentrate on volleyball...she plays year round organized volleyball both at school and on a JO team
she runs, and works out daily and has always been active
copzson is a runner and has always been a distance runner ala Forrest Gump..he runs until he just can't anymore
Swim is a MUST. Even if they don't swim as a sport they must know how. Its safety.
Otherwise we plan on t-ball and football. And piano
We aren't going to force anything on our kids, but they need to be active in SOMETHING they like. If I have to fold and go soccer I will for the sake of my children. But I will discourage it 