Well in any sport we play in PE no one wants to group with my friend because she's a little less than athletic. So I group with her. Since we only have 9 people in our P.E. class my other friend is "stuck" with us too. I tried to teach my less athletic friend how to play a sport so she can be included in the game too. But my other friend gets frustrated with me and her because she can't catch anything and I spend the whole PE class period trying to teach her how to play the sport we're learning. I really don't have a problem with it, in fact I think it's her that's getting frustrated because she keeps thinking that she'll never be good at PE. My other friend doesn't like me very much because of what happens in PE. (like in science when she wouldn't sit next to me because she said this other girl was her best friend and she sits next to her everyday and the one day I wanted to sit next to her she got frustrated. So now I'm stumped. What do I do?
Ummmm, have you tried talking to this girl and telling her the whole story? And ask her if she would help out and quite getting so frustrated....
I think you're doing the right thing, it's just a matter of explaining to your friend that you're simply trying to help this girl. Your friend will hopefully understand and maye then the two of you could work together with this girl to see if you can help her better.
I tend to agree with your (non-athletic) friend. Not everyone is good at sports. I'm not. I never have been. I got out of those classes by any means necessary in high school. Luckily, I only had to take one, and none in college. If she truly can't be good, accept that. She's probably really good at something less physical.
Yeah. I asked to help teach her with the sport we're playing (Ultimate Frisbee) but all she does is gets angry at me because she says I'm "wasting time". It's not that I'm disappointed that she isn't good at sports, but it's the fact that everyone excludes her because she's not good. Everyone assumes that I'll be her partner so they don't even bother asking her. I don't have a problem with being her partner because she's my best friend, but I guess it's the fact that it's not right to be excluded just because you're not good at something. Also she's really good at drawing, but in P.E. that skill doesn't help much.
I have a friend like that. Back when we were in gym together I usually partnered up with him. Because he got frusturated so much we pretty much stoped trying to do stuff right and just messed around. Like if we were playing tennis we wouldn't bother following the rules, we'd just have fun trying to hit it past eachother. Never even bothered with the rules usually. I don't know if you'd want to try that though.
