{"id":72,"date":"2020-01-20T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.http:\/\/slowfoodboulder.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2019-12-05T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T08:07:35","slug":"motivate-a-child-to-try-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/child-rearing\/motivate-a-child-to-try-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Constructing Ways to Motivate a Child to Try Harder in Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physical activity is very important to everyone, especially kids.\u00a0 It promotes inner strength, self-esteem, self-discipline, and improves our vision to achieve our goal.\u00a0 Kids love to play and sports is a great way of transforming their energy for something greater.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of motivation is most probably due to either being discouraged and doesn&#8217;t know about sports.<\/p>\n<p>If we begin to recognize the sport the child is interested in, we can able to motivate child to try harder in sports.<\/p>\n<h2>Picking the sports<\/h2>\n<p>One should not force their wishes on their children.\u00a0 Allow the kids to pick his own favorite sport.\u00a0 This will motivate the child to do well in sports.<\/p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t push<\/h2>\n<p>Motivate the kid without being pushed too hard.\u00a0 If you are too pushy, they will resist more.<\/p>\n<h2>Outside Practice<\/h2>\n<p>Train them outside only if the kids accept the offer, but don&#8217;t demand them.\u00a0 It will often pressurize them.\u00a0 If the child says no, drop it and come again with it another time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_928365.jpg\" alt=\"try harder in sports\" width=\"890\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_928365.jpg 890w, http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_928365-300x156.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_928365-768x400.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Notice the Hard Work<\/h2>\n<p>Be reasonable.\u00a0 Over praising annoy him and also make him lazy.<\/p>\n<h2>Watching the game<\/h2>\n<p>Take the child to the game show so that he can observe the game.<\/p>\n<h2>Read the Rules<\/h2>\n<p>Give the child rule book to study the sport.<\/p>\n<h2>Play with the child<\/h2>\n<p>Teach your kid the fun and tricks of the sport.\u00a0 Let make him enjoy the sport.<\/p>\n<h2>Celebrate victories and failures<\/h2>\n<p>Celebrate victories and failures of your child.\u00a0 Victories will make him physically great and failures will make him grow towards success.\u00a0 No matter whatever the final results, stand by him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31\" src=\"http:\/\/slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_8325625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"877\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_8325625.jpg 877w, http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_8325625-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_8325625-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Answering the questions<\/h2>\n<p>Drills may be frustrating for a young player.\u00a0 So, it is important to clarify how the drills can help him to achieve his goals.\u00a0 Make him understandable about the game and the essentials of practice.<\/p>\n<h2>Goals<\/h2>\n<p>Set the goals that can be accomplished by the young player in terms of his age and ability.<\/p>\n<h2>Team Work<\/h2>\n<p>Encourage players to know one another and engage in team-building activities.<\/p>\n<h2>Be Relaxed<\/h2>\n<p>Allow them to relax and pursue their interests other than sports. This will encourage your kid in sports.\u00a0 Pushing will make them worn out.<\/p>\n<p>In sports, the balance should be maintained.\u00a0 Sport is not a job for the child, so proper nutrition and rest are essential for success.\u00a0 Try to understand the child as a person; this will certainly motivate the young athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical activity is very important to everyone, especially kids.\u00a0 It promotes inner strength, self-esteem, self-discipline, and improves our vision to achieve our goal.\u00a0 Kids love&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,11],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMAGE_65289375.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slowfoodboulder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}