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I have an 8 year old son who will be going into 3rd grade.

He played little league baseball this year and loved it.

He had his first football practice yesterday and he wasn't as thrilled about it. Today when it was time for practice he said he didn't want to go. Then when we got there, 1 hour into it he came off the field complaining that he felt like he was gonna throw up. I was concerned about the heat, it's really unusually hot here in upstate NY. But he looked ok, face color normal and he wasn't showing signs of heat exhaustion so I gave him a drink and made him go back out. Not even 5 minutes passed and he was complaining again. This time he refused to go back out and started crying.

So I took him home early and now he is just fine. I KNOW that he was faking it because he didn't want to play anymore.

My problem is, what should I do?

I don't want to push him into playing football if he really doesn't wanna play. But at the same time, he has only been to 2 practices and I feel like he should give it a fair chance before I let him quit. Plus we paid over $100 for him to be on this team.

Should I force him to play, for at least 2 weeks before letting him quit? Or should I just let him quit now?

Thanks for your help

football's a tough sport. very intense training and depending on the coaches, little tolerance for complaining. because of your sons young age i would imagine that the coaches would be a lot more calm in their approach, but that doesn't always happen. what i would do is stay at his practices and see what exactly is going on and how intense the practices are. baseball is a totaly different sport than football, and a totaly different mind set. baseball also is a lot less of a physical stresser. i would continue to have im play, but it is not the type of sport that i would force him to stay into because of its intensity. i wouldnt let the money factor suade your desision. my brother started football when he was about 9 or 10 and he diddnt like it at first, he came home feeling sick, but he stuck with it and he is now on the highschool team, and he loves it, he also plays baseball and loves both sports, but he is more tired after football than baseball.

i would have him stick it out for a little while longer, but watch what the coaches are doing for practices, football isn't a sport for everyone, you have to watn to play it to be able to disapline yourself to go through the physical stress, but like i said this is probably not as intense, but training will only become more intense as he gets older.

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(Rating: 5) Thanks, I am gonna give it 1 more week then if he still wants to quit that's ok. We'll stick with baseball and if he decides he wants to play football in the future we'll try again
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