Alison Curtis: Should I push my daughter to play soccer?

Alison Curtis: after her own foray into sports as an adult, daughter Joan has also taken to the pitch

My daughter Joan recently joined a local football team. She has played various sports through school and bursts of tennis in our local club but up until this month, she hasn’t been part of a team.

I know I have written before in this column about the importance of sport in children’s lives and in particular girls. The importance of encouraging this side of their lives past those tricky drop-off years of 13/14 years old.