Parents, you sacrifice a lot. Early mornings, long drives, stressful weekends, and the emotional rollercoaster of playing time, performance, and comparison. You feel it. Your child feels it too. The energy you carry becomes the energy they compete with. So the real question is this: What are you suffering for? If the focus is external outcomes, trophies, offers, rankings, validation, the suffering never ends. Because those things disappear fast. The joy is temporary, the pressure is...

We hear this all the time: “My kid just doesn’t listen to me anymore. “I’ve told them this a hundred times. “They tune me out.” If you’ve ever felt that, you’re not alone. It doesn’t mean your child doesn’t care; in fact, the opposite is usually true. The truth is this: Influence has nothing to do with how much you talk. Influence has everything to do with how you make them feel and how you make them think. Your athlete is always being influenced by someone. The question is who. Today’s...

There are moments in youth sports that we don’t talk about enough. Moments that happen quietly , not on the highlight reels, not in the car ride home, not even during the game. It’s the moment when your child is trying so hard to hold it together, when they care  more than they know how to say. When they want so badly to make you proud that the pressure becomes too heavy to carry. If your athlete has ever looked frustrated, shut down, or walked away from a game holding back tears — there’s a...