The Question I Get Asked at Every Practice
It Comes up Every Season Somewhere around week two of any season, another parent pulls me aside and asks some version of the same thing: “How do you coach your own kid without it getting weird?” I get it from the baseball side, the football side, and the tennis parents too. It is the most […]
Something widely believed about youth sports that I think is wrong
The idea I keep pushing back on A lot of parents and even coaches believe the earlier a kid specializes in one sport, the better their odds of getting good at it. Pick the sport by age eight, play it year round, add private lessons, skip the other seasons. I have coached football and baseball, […]
Coaching six kids through six different seasons at once
The scheduling problem nobody warns you about Right now I have kids in different sports, at different ages, on different teams, all in the same calendar month. If you have more than one kid in organized sports, you already know what that means. Practices overlap. Games get scheduled at the same time on opposite sides […]