{"id":871890,"date":"2025-09-10T01:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/ask-allison-my-son-is-struggling-to-fit-in-at-secondary-school-and-is-upset-about-his-sports-performance\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:12:06","slug":"ask-allison-my-son-is-struggling-to-fit-in-at-secondary-school-and-is-upset-about-his-sports-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/ask-allison-my-son-is-struggling-to-fit-in-at-secondary-school-and-is-upset-about-his-sports-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Allison: My son is struggling to fit in at secondary school and is upset about his sports performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mONNIdCDwu\" data-fragment-name=\"articleDetail\">\n<header data-testid=\"article-header\"><\/header>\n<p data-testid=\"title-summary\">Psychologist Allison Keating answers your queries about life and relationships\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure data-testid=\"article-image-wrapper\"><figcaption data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p>Feelings of inadequacy on the sports field can compound the stress of settling in to a new school environment. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Question:<\/span> My son has just turned 13. He is a year younger than most of his friends. He is football mad and plays GAA and soccer. He isn\u2019t the best player but not the worst either.<\/p>\n<p>When he meets up with his friends to play football, they have started to make fun of him if he misses a goal or makes a mistake. He then gets angry and that makes it worse. He has had a hard year settling into First Year in school and struggled to make friends as he was put into a form class with no one from his primary school class.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Dion Redner <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/life\/health-wellbeing\/health-features\/ask-allison-my-son-is-struggling-to-fit-in-at-secondary-school-and-is-upset-about-his-sports-performance\/a1586185061.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologist Allison Keating answers your queries about life and relationships Feelings of inadequacy on the sports field can compound the stress of settling in to a new school environment. Photo: Getty Question: My son has just turned 13. He is a year younger than most of his friends. He is football mad and plays GAA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":871891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3298,1103],"tags":[15495,12005],"class_list":{"0":"post-871890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allison","8":"category-struggling","9":"tag-allison","10":"tag-struggling"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}