Youngest age to take your nipper to a match

[bender]

This weekend I'm taking my daughter to her first football match. She's nearly 4 and I think she'll quite like it. I'm in the family section so her ticket was free (except the £1.50 booking charge).

 

If she gets bored i'm bringing the iPad along with head phones but I'm hoping she wont do. My only worry really is if she suddenly decides she needs to go to the toilet and there's a queue for the cubicals.

 

Any advice would be appreciated. Anyone else brought their nippers along from an early age but regretted it??

[wessex saint]

Took my boy when he was 4 and it cemented a life long love with Saints (well.... 10 yrs as he's only 14). She'll spend most of her time watching other people and want to get up and pee a lot but don't worry - you're in the family section and everyones in the same boat.

You'll love it and so will she!

[vince]

Take lots of things to keep her interested, it's a long time for a 4YO to be sat still. Prepare her for the noise too - you're used to it, but it could be quite frightning for her.

[JustMike]

This weekend I'm taking my daughter to her first football match. She's nearly 4 and I think she'll quite like it. I'm in the family section so her ticket was free (except the £1.50 booking charge).

 

If she gets bored i'm bringing the iPad along with head phones but I'm hoping she wont do. My only worry really is if she suddenly decides she needs to go to the toilet and there's a queue for the cubicals.

 

Any advice would be appreciated. Anyone else brought their nippers along from an early age but regretted it??

 

took my youngest to a game when she was of similar age to yours, it was our relegation season from the championship, she got so bored she fell asleep across 2 seats before half time!

[View From The Top]

Nipper has been a season ticket holder from the age of 6. Went to a few games before that. We just found a system that worked for us which involved DS, crisps etc which decreased as he got older & his concentration span increased.

 

Now, at the ripe old age of 10, he stands on his seat in the Northam deeming the family centre "for kids".

[bender]

Take lots of things to keep her interested, it's a long time for a 4YO to be sat still. Prepare her for the noise too - you're used to it, but it could be quite frightning for her.

 

Cheers. I'm quite looking forward to picking her up and jumping up and down if we score. She'll love that. One thing I forgot the mention is that she has a twin brother but I'm choosing to take her rather than him as she has a better temperament and less likely to want to grizzle if she doesnlt like it.

[JustMike]

Cheers. I'm quite looking forward to picking her up and jumping up and down if we score. She'll love that. One thing I forgot the mention is that she has a twin brother but I'm choosing to take her rather than him as she has a better temperament and less likely to want to grizzle if she doesnlt like it.

 

definitely bring your own food for her! Can get very expensive otherwise

[View From The Top]

definitely bring your own food for her! Can get very expensive otherwise

 

Oh yes.

[JPTCount]

4 is way too young imo, there was a toddler asleep in his dads arm at the leeds game this weekend

 

fair play if ur willing to pay up & put up with it but my dad never took us to games till we were 7/8, its a long, expensive, noisy day out for a small child

[ecuk268]

Started my lad off with reserve games when they used to be played at The Dell.

 

He was about 6 when he saw his 1st real game (a 4-3 win against Ipswich). Even though I told him that not all games are like that, he was hooked and has had a season ticket for years.

[eurosaint]

Both my son and now my grandson started at 5, never had any problems apart from constant questions starting with the word 'why' ?

ie. when Billy Sharp missed a golden chance in the Wolves match, I stated that it would have been easier to score than to miss, my grandson then innocently said "so why didn't he ?"

Sometimes you just don't have an answer !

[slickmick]

This weekend I'm taking my daughter to her first football match. She's nearly 4 and I think she'll quite like it. I'm in the family section so her ticket was free (except the £1.50 booking charge).

 

If she gets bored i'm bringing the iPad along with head phones but I'm hoping she wont do. My only worry really is if she suddenly decides she needs to go to the toilet and there's a queue for the cubicals.

 

Any advice would be appreciated. Anyone else brought their nippers along from an early age but regretted it??

 

 

How come it was free ?

[bender]

How come it was free ?

 

It is for Under 11's in the family area, for Category B and C games. Cat A games are £8

[slickmick]

It is for Under 11's in the family area, for Category B and C games. Cat A games are £8

 

Somethings wrong here then because I've been charged £8 for under 11's tickets in the Chapel stand. Unless block 16 isn't the family area, even though when booking I did ask for the family section.

[The Cat]

Don't worry about the queues for the toilets, people let you through pretty quick if you are with a small child.

[Durleyfos]

Took my eldest last year, he was 4 1/2.

 

Fell asleep in my arms for the last 20 minutes!

 

Take plenty for them to eat, saves a fortune!

 

Maybe take something for them to do (DS or something) as you will be sat there for a long time. As all parents know, the attention span of youngsters isn't as long a football match.

[Huffton]

Somethings wrong here then because I've been charged £8 for under 11's tickets in the Chapel stand. Unless block 16 isn't the family area, even though when booking I did ask for the family section.

 

Family area is from block 20 round to 22/23 this season

[bender]

Somethings wrong here then because I've been charged £8 for under 11's tickets in the Chapel stand. Unless block 16 isn't the family area, even though when booking I did ask for the family section.

 

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/tickets/ticket-prices/

 

Under 11's deffo free for B and C games. You must have got a ticket for wings/goals

[TijuanaTim]

Whatever age you are prepared to expose the child to excessive alcohol use, extremely bad language and hostile, aggressive behaviour...if not don't complain when there, because those things (not sometimes, but) always happen at games.

 

Go - take the child by all means, just be prepared.

[Saint Garrett]

I went to my first game when I was 5, loved it and been forever a saint since!

[bender]

Whatever age you are prepared to expose the child to excessive alcohol use, extremely bad language and hostile, aggressive behaviour...if not don't complain when there, because those things (not sometimes, but) always happen at games.

 

Go - take the child by all means, just be prepared.

 

Alcohol use, extremely bad language and hostile, aggressive behaviour !!! Are you serious?? The family section is the only area of the ground where you have the right to complain of those things. Surely if your going to behave in that manner, you have every other section of the ground to do so. What kind of t w a t acts like that in the family section???

[OLDER BUT WISER]

My youngest grandson is now on his third season ticket and he will not be 5 until October and he has seen them in 3 divisions already (well will next week).

His total hero is Kelvin and he cried last year when he did not play (sadly so did I after Barts display)

[BILLY]

Took my daughter when she was 18 months old at the Dell but had to leave at half time after she wouldn't stop crying after we scored.

[bender]

So people are taking their nippers along at ages of 1 or 2. wtf?