My sons (7yr old)choose to play Archery for a sport, so his poopy set him up with all the gear that he needs to play and he was going along just fine and learning well. My father can be a bit of a pusher when sport is involved....not my 7 yr old is not going as well and we can not work out why and to be honest I am hoping it is not due to my father pushing him too much to try better and knows he can do better....my son is one of these children that if you push he pushes back...but my father gets grumpy and very upset if you mention that you are pushing him too much and sport is about fun.....I really do not know how to get through to my father and explain that he is pushing him too far, my father get very upset easily and does not see reason very well.
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Why is your father involved in this? Time to put a barrier in place. Ask your son IF he wants to still do archery or stop. If he wants to stop pull him out. He's 7 and there are plenty more things for him to try.
Otherwise I'd make sure I was the one involved in the archery and I'd be pushing my dad out. I'd be being firm with my dad, you either shut up or you stop going to archery.
There is loads of evidence and research around kids dropping out of sport because of pushy family members.