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Ellie Hutchings

'You can quit... but not today' - the game-changing words to use when your kid wants to give up a sport, according to an Olympic gold medallist

A young girl posing with a football under his arm.

Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin has shared the words her parents told her whenever she wanted to quit - and you can use them too.

One of the hardest parts of parenting can be deciding when to push your children out of their comfort zone and when to listen to their concerns and allow them to pull back from something. Depending on your parenting style, you might take a different approach to this dilemma. Those who favour gentle parenting may decide that letting their child have control over what they do or don't participate in is an important boundary to teach, while stricter tiger parents are less likely to want their child to quit.

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