When your kid starts playing competitive sports, something incredible happens: suddenly EVERYONE becomes a coach.

Parents. Grandparents. Friends. Other parents. The guy at the driving range. Everyone has a tip, a correction, a swing thought, or an opinion.

But even good advice at the wrong time can become bad advice.

In this episode of THIS WITH KRISH, I talk about youth sports from the perspective of a parent raising an 8-year-old competitive junior golfer. We get into coaching, parental pressure, practice, motivation, winning, losing, tournament expectations, and one of the hardest lessons for sports parents to learn:

Sometimes the best thing you can do is stop coaching and just be Mom or Dad.

Your child's coach can analyze mechanics. The leaderboard can measure performance. The stats can show improvement.

But home should be the place where their performance doesn't determine how they're treated.

We talk about:

• Why parents shouldn't automatically become their child's coach • How conflicting advice can hurt young athletes • Internal motivation vs. parental pressure • The dreaded ride-home tournament analysis • Why your body language matters after a bad shot • Helping kids handle winning AND losing • Protecting a child's love for their sport • Why an 8-year-old athlete is still an 8-year-old kid • The three questions every adult should ask before giving a junior athlete advice • Why sometimes the best sports-parenting advice is simply: let the kid play

If you're raising a competitive golfer, baseball player, soccer player, basketball player, gymnast, swimmer, football player, or any young athlete, this episode is for you.

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WATCH THE GOLF MOM MINDSET PODCAST

For another perspective on raising, supporting and developing junior golfers, check out the Golf Mom Mindset Podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMCZtzEc8ns

The goal isn't to raise an 8-year-old champion.

The goal is to help raise a confident, resilient kid who still loves the game when he's 18.

Let the coach coach.

Let the kid play.

And sometimes, just enjoy watching your kid do something they love.

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