We signed our 4-year-old DD up for a week of mini soccer camp with another friend from preschool. It's just an hour and a half every day this week. Today when I came to pick her up, she was just sitting on the grass watching the other kids. I asked her coach if she had done that the whole time, and he made it sound like she had been sitting out for maybe half. He said she was tired from the heat, but when I asked DD about it, she said she just didn't like the games. I felt disappointed that she wasn't trying it, but I'm not sure what the appropriate reaction is (I tend to overreact...). I don't want her to sit out the whole week of camp, obviously.

We just went through something similar with dance, where she said she wanted to do it, and after a couple lessons, all I heard about was how she didn't like dance. Since we had just invested in all of the shoes, leotard, tights, etc. we told her she had to stick it out through the recital. It was like pulling teeth to get through the recital but in the end she said the recital was really fun. (But I won't be signing her up for dance again until she's older, if she asks to do it again).

I want to respect her autonomy if she doesn't like something, but she's also a kid with a lot of whims!