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Poor kid.
Making your son participate in some type of sport is not a bad thing after all many private schools require their students to participate in some type of extra curricular activity and many of them are some type of sport. I actually found my knack in bowling in high school. No it is not football, baseball or cross country but it kept me moving and that's what our kids need. Encourage you child to participate and hopefully eventually he will find his knack.
you should make him run cross country so he can decide that he hates exercise and/or that he resents his mother. and then he can be paralyzed by choice when - as an adult - he doesn't know how to choose anything without his mother forcing him into it.
or, you could ask him what he wants to do. if he says "lay on the couch and watch tv or play video games" then give him a week or two to be a vegetable. maybe watch/play with him a little bit each day, if at all possible. then, it will eventually become clear what he's into (even if it's just tv or video games) and you can stear him to a class or activity related to it. or not.
if he's not in an activity, he can come home from school and start dinner, shovel snow, rake leaves, mow the grass, paint the porch, etc, before flopping on the couch. those are ways of being active that will help you AND push him into finding an activity that is less chore-centric, i think.
good luck.
Try swimming or even better... Golf. Home chores are good too, but the experience of organized sports is really good.
Might try drama or music interests too...anything organized that he is comfortable with and NOT run by the parent, is good stuff
I dont know that I would "make" a child do anythign like that they they didnt want to rather I would search high and low for every activity he could participate in and this includes outside school, perhaps he would prefer karate or tennis, give him the choice
Chant NERDS everytime you see him and maybe he will get off his arse. Try lacrosse, paint ball, archery, something outside the standard school sports.
KIds love dirtbikes and atv's................im 31 and love these things....
I love how people put organized sports up high above all other activities. The more I'm involved with the team sport thing with my kids, the more I realize that many parents are raising little spoiled brats. Your son sounds like an introvert, which is not a bad thing. Being introverted just means that team sports can be extremely drainig on him. Or maybe he's just not athletic. Ask him what he wants to do, without acting like art or music is inferior.
let him do what he enjoys doing as long as he does well in school and is not causing andy teenage mayhem. not everyone is a jock.
There's lots of money to be made selling crack after school--the kid could earn more than his teachers.
When you are looking for alternatives, consider the Boy Scouts. If you find an active troop, your son can participate in varied outdoor activities while fostering both a sense of self and team achievements. My son is in both Scouts and one of the better players on his soccer team. He has been in both for years. I can't stand to watch sports, but since soccer is something that he "chose" to do, I go and sit through it to support HIS INTEREST. (I found this past weekend that earplugs actually made the experience slightly more tolerable.) He also chose to join Cub Scouts and has chosen to stick with it into Boy Scouts. I have made it clear to him that if he doesn't want to continue in it, he doesn't have to because of me also participating in the troop. This we actually enjoy together since I have always liked to spend time in the outdoors and took both my son and daughter camping regularly before joining Scouts. And don't worry that it may be ultra religious. Religion is an element of Scouting, but I have been able to participate and enjoy the activity despite my less than conservative beliefs and disagreement with some of the BSA policies.
Get him loaded and take him to a strip club one time. Once he gets an idea of everything alcohol and females have to offer, he'll be chasing it them around forever. That's how my dad taught me. Excuse me now, I have to go to the free clinic for my Valtrex.
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