Average athletes go to practice as the baseline to participate in sports. Above average athletes do extra work during the offseason to improve. Good athletes have self-motivation and use that self-motivation as the drive to achieve progressively harder goals. Subsequently, doing those three things are enough for 99% of athletes to enjoy sports and compete […]
Some of my best and worst moments have come in and around youth sports. I try to write about many of those moments so others can learn from my successes and failures as a youth sports dad. More often than not, the unsung hero in those stories is my wife. I believe I can speak […]
Today as I was reading Cal Ripken’s book on parenting young athletes titled The Ripken Way I came across a startling statistic. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control, on any typical day kids today are six times more likely to play a video game than to […]