Are the Reasons For Your Child's Playing Youth Soccer the Right Ones?

Very often, parents influence their children into doing something that is their wish and not the child's. Maybe they are doing it unconsciously but they are still doing it. Not to mention those parents who are doing it on purpose and deliberately. Law should forbid those separate cases of parents using their children to fulfill their dreams.

For those who are doing it unconsciously, there are signs that you as a parent should search for and recognize them, in order to find out if your child really loves playing soccer or he does it for you.

Every time that child should go on training, he should be excited and impatient. If that is a case, than you have a child that does it because he is passionate about it and because he loves the game itself. You could be even surer if your child uses every opportunity that he has to play soccer, whether it is by himself while practicing soccer drills or with his friends, outside.

Even if he loves playing soccer, parents should not use it in any case to push him to be perfect. This can ruin everything. Pressure on the child can be so big that he can start avoiding the game or his performance can go worse instead of getting better. Child should be left to enjoy the game, the chance to learn important lessons in life as how to cope with losing, winning and unfairness. He should grow as a person as well as a player and only way to do this properly is if his parents are not interfering.

Parents should not interfere in everything but in some things, they should. Children are young, inexperienced and don't know how things work. There are cases where child loses his eagerness to play youth soccer because he just expects to be as professional soccer stars right away and if that does not happen soon enough, they don't want to play. In this case, you as a parent should interfere and explain to your child how things really work. He should know that those popular soccer stars worked hard for what they are today, from early years. He should know that if he really loves the game but does not play because he expects to be successful right away, he would lose his chance to achieve that one day. If he decides not to play anyway, you should not force him but I am sure that your guidance as a parent will help him to continue and enjoy the game.

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