Need help with 9 year ols

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  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    If there is a running club near you I would check into the kids program, if they have one. The running club here does a running workshop for elementary and middle schoolers, with distance scaled to the age of the child (9 year olds do 2 miles at the end I believe). The workshop here runs 6 weeks I think, with a kids only "cross country" race at the end.
  • VelvetMorning
    VelvetMorning Posts: 398 Member
    I would ask the baby if he even cares that he's a slow runner and/or if people are griefing him over it. If he's healthy and active, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal unless he's looking to be an athlete when he's older. If he does care, take him on some runs with you and see how he likes it. I would imagine that running with you would pick up his endurance and build muscle in a calm, nonjudgmental environment that he can really bloom in. In school, slow runners are generally bullied (or, at least, I was), which can make it very difficult to focus on improving when you're contemplating what snark is going to come out of your mouth at the end.
  • verdemujer
    verdemujer Posts: 1,397 Member
    I'm not going to read all the string of posts but from the grazing I have done:

    1) The test is an answer from the presidents to tell our kids they need to be better physically fit. Meanwhile there are other expectations so all the recess time and almost all PE time has disappeared from school. That means kids have to find their exercise somewhere else. (My girl stress fractured her foot in 4th grade with part of the presidential test.)

    2) Some type of organized sport is a good thing. We do karate and have since 1st grade. Watching all these little kids exercise is at times funny and times amazing. They have no concept of how to do a proper jumping jack, a proper push up or a situp. It's the hardest thing to get them to do a push up "right". Sit ups too - if they aren't done right - you can actually mess up your neck or your stomach muscles. Jumping jacks - its just looks cool if you can all do them the same and not be lazy about it. I would encourage the push up challenge thing though know he'll lose interest very quickly and won't go through the entire month. That's my experience.

    And get him to play more running games. Speed drills, obstable courses, sprints - it will all build up his speed and endurance. My kid has to exercise if he wants to watch tv or play on the computer. That's our personal rule.
  • Pack100
    Pack100 Posts: 13 Member
    Check out Kwik golf. We use this in PE classes for golf and fitness.

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