Why won’t my mother let me take my 5-year-old nephew to boxing training?
November 30th, 2010
I’m an amateur cage fighter/boxer. I was bullied ferociously in Elementary school. My dad was very absent during my childhood, I was only around my mother and older sisters. For 6 years I endured constantly being punched, kicked, and having my nose broken. I used to get home full of bruises because of the rocks the other kids would throw at me, I used to get contusions because sometimes the rocks would hit me on the head, on winters, sometimes I would burn up in fever because the other kids would throw me into big puddles of cold water.
My mother NEVER let me enroll into a self-defense class. It was only until I turned 18 that I got into karate training, then into boxing training, then into krav maga training, then into jiu jitsu training, then into muay thai training. Eventually I became an amateur boxer and cage fighter. I have gotten paid for some fights, but I’m not a pro.
My nephew just turned 5 years old, I want to take him to the boxing gym to teach him how to box before he enrolls in Elementary. I have some friends who are taking their boys to learn boxing as soon as 3 years old. My sister was no problem with me teaching my nephew boxing, but my mother is making a HUGE scandal, and threatened to stop babysitting my nephew if I take him boxing.
My mother and sisters are very aware at the way I was physcially abused in Elementary school. My mother NEVER let metake self-defense training, and now she doesn’t want my nephew to get any either.
What can I do?
There has been a lot of stories of kids commiting suicide as a result of bullying. All you need to do is show her those articles and if that doens’t change her mind, then do it behind her back. You need to get this kid in the boxing gym. Mine is 7 and he’s training with me. I try not to overwhelm him, so I take him once a week and make it fun.