Jon Gruden has convinced me to stop pushing my 7-year-old son to play sports

My son is 7, and he hates sports. Just hates them. It’s not that he dislikes physical activity. He loves swimming and going to the playground and riding his scooter; he even likes gym at school. But the second he gets the sense that I’d like him to try a sport — basketball, T-ball — he absolutely shuts down. One spring, I signed him up for soccer. Every Saturday morning, he took to the field — the edge of the field: standing sullenly, arms crossed, refusing to play.