The Juggling ActDaily Coronavirus Check-in: Sam Squiers on the lesson girls playing sport teaches our sons
We’ve had a great break from all the extra-curricula activities that kids do, and it’s been nice not to spend weekends rushing from one thing to the next. But things are starting to kick off again (pun intended) and while I’m dreading standing out in the cold at 9.30 on Saturday morning as my daughter TRIES to play netball, she’s super excited. Mostly about wearing the uniform which I get, it is cute. I grew up in a sporting household and it taught me so many things - Resilience, teamwork, confidence, social skills, and yup, a competitive streak. So it’s something I’m encouraging in my kids too. One person who totally gets that is sports journalist and mum of two girls Sam Squiers. When Sam had her first daughter, she wanted to find a book about girls in sport to read her and couldn’t find any – so she wrote one herself! I’ve read it to both my kids and they loved it, so I reached out to Sam to find out a bit more behind why it’s important to send a powerful message to girls about sport from an early age.
