Ep 29 Should i say something to the parents who brag nonstop?

https://heysammi.com/  how do you deal with sports parents who brag constantly? a dad in san diego wrote to me because one family's highlight reels and stat updates have become the soundtrack of the season, and his son has started measuring himself with somebody else's ruler. in this episode i save him an awkward parking lot conversation: you don't confront them, because nobody in the history of bleachers has ever taken that note well. instead i explain what bragging usually is, anxiety wearing a varsity jacket, and why hearing it that way changes everything. then the real work, which happens at your dinner table: the question that lets your kid decode the bragging himself, why a kid who figures it out owns the immunity forever, and the one boring sentence, cool man, that makes him unprovokable on the field. i also cover quiet pride, telling your kid what you love about how he plays with no audience, the one exception where you do go to the coach, and the surprising person to keep an eye on: the bragged-about kid himself, who's carrying the trophy-cabinet weight nobody sees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices