Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Friendship Smendship Part 2
During his time your child played in little league and other community programs, he/she played on usually the same teams with the same "friends". Now that they are older and their interest level in the same programs has gotten stronger/weaker causing them to want to either try different things or to stay the course while their friends went elsewhere. Did that affect which adults you hung out with as well? Without "abandoning" the true adult friendships that have also evolved through the years, should parents change their social tendancies towards the parents of the "current" close friends of their children in order to maintain that level of control that they are used to and to be a part of the same social circle as their kids? An often overlooked benefit is that it is still possible to develop additional solid friendships that can be just as strong as those that are already in place - that is "additional" friendships, not friendships that replace others. I believe that you can never have enough "true" friends. What are your thoughts?
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I think that kids will always grow away from friends that they made through sports. Sometimes they will remain the best of friends with their teammates. It is natural for kids to make new friends especially when they go to high school and a lot stop playing sports. You can never force your child to hang out with certain people and the more you try the more they will want to hang out with those people. If your child wants to keep in touch with his old friends from sports let them if not do not pressure them. The tough part is getting to know the parents of your child's new friends, it is not like you are going to run into them at their soccer games. At the same time you do not want to get too involved because that will just turn you kids off even more.
Sports is based on friendship and that will never change, like many friends we have in life some you fall out of context with and others remain friends for life. I found this one video that just reminded me of how much fun kids have with sports and the friendships they do form.
http://www.sportzu.tv/video/vail-devo
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