Modern parenting removes capability

0:00 I was talking to a friend where their kid lost a starting spot in their soccer team and was like, "I'm not going to practice today. I can't. Like, it's always the starting team. I'm gonna walk out and be like, wait, that's not even me. I'm gonna be one of the kids watching from the sideline. I've never not started before." >> My friend called me. We talked through it and I said, "What you're going to say is, [music] I won't let you take away an opportunity to see you are capable of dealing with this. [music] It's going to feel awful. It's going to feel embarrassing. It's going to be the worst practice of your soccer career. I will not let you in this state make this type of decision for yourself and that's what we coached around and it was from a place of love and belief and capability which is sound like exactly what your coach did and kind of saying I know you like [music] you're not in the best place to do that and so I am going to set you up and I believe in you and like I just had the chills thinking [music] about that. Yeah, when you repeat it, it gave me chills. And my coach uh just passed away about a month ago. And so, he was such an honorable, amazing man.

0:59 And it [music] also taught me too that the people around me didn't care about the medals. Like, it was about just me. It was about my self-development. It was about me striving for my goals and just always showing up, doing my best. And so, yeah, I'm so grateful that he said those words to