[Solved] swap roles

As long as the children are enjoying it then I am 100% for it.

My take on it is that children have some interest in being involved with whatever their Mum and Dad are into.
And, depending on the personality and nature of each child, they might thrive on sharing the activity and grow with the engagement together.
Or, they will simply not 'get it' and get little or no enjoyment out of the activity.

Its possible that a child will keep doing something if its the only time that parent offers them - desperate for the attention.
- I recall my little girl painting a door, a wall, laying a brick, riding in a wheelbarrow. But she only spend long enough to get the brush wet, and to literally push the brick on the cement - then she ran off and continued playing in a different direction (I think she had got enough out of 'helping' me but really was not interested). The riding in the wheelbarrow was always her way of enjoying gardening with me - and she kept coming back for more.
Perhaps its more about moments together as opposed to final score or even what the activity is.

So the bottom line for me is that as a parent I hope I have enough sensitivity and understanding to work out whether the sporting activity is helping or hindering them.

Im all for girls playing traditional boys stuff and vice versa,but to be totally honest I think i'd be a bit gutted if my lad wants to do Ballet when he's older. 😉 😉

As a girls football Coach I'm all for girls being involved in sports that were considered traditionally boys sports.

Girls and women's football is the fastest growing female sport in the country , women's rugby is growing at a quick rate also. The England women's cricket team is the best in the world so why should sports still be considered male and female ?

As long as the kids are getting active and having fun does it matter what they are playing ?

Boys for... gymnasts.

I saw some men on the rings on telly the other day - I don't really like gymnastics and haven't watched it since I was a kid and my dad had it on telly - I was amazed at how far they've developed. These guys were able to hold themselves horizonally for seconds at a time. I was amazed. The implication of your statement is that it's girly. I didn't see anything girly about that.

Or were you just testing us to see if we'd make the assumption that it's girly?

Trouble is, when I see questions like that, what I want to know is what's prompting them.