How Physical Education Should Change as Your Child Grows
I kept using the same approach. And somewhere around age ten, it stopped working.
For a long time, PE at our house looked pretty much the same every year. Go outside. Move around. Come back tired. I called it PE, and mostly it was fine.
Then somewhere around age nine or ten, something shifted. The backyard games that used to keep my child moving for an hour now got an eye roll. The obstacle course that once felt exciting was suddenly beneath them. The child who used to run laps just because running was fun now needed a reason.
I thought something was wrong. Wrong with the plan. Wrong with my kid. Wrong with me for not being more creative or consistent or structured.
It was none of those things.
My child changed. And I hadn’t.
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