Ep 30 Is a 90 minute drive to practice too much?

https://heysammi.com/  how far is too far to drive for youth sports? a mom in chicago wrote to me about her family's routine: 90 minutes each way, three times a week, with her husband saying it's too much and her saying it's what their daughter needs. in this episode i do the math out loud, nine hours a week, a part-time job spent watching taillights, and then interrogate the sentence doing all the work: it's what she needs. needs for what, exactly? i walk through the questions that actually settle it. is this truly the only place she can develop, or just the best-known option? what is the drive costing in sleep, homework, siblings, and marriage? and what's happening in the car for those three hours, because a drive can be the relationship or two silent phones and a kid asleep on the window. then the middle path the far club will never suggest: a one-season experiment closer to home, with a review date, so the decision gets made with data from your own family instead of a brochure. plus the two voices missing from the argument, the sibling in the back seat and the daughter herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices