Ep 37 My daughter is a great teammate but she's not improving. should i worry?

https://heysammi.com/  should i be worried my child isn't improving at their sport? a mom in salt lake city wrote to me about her daughter, the encourager, the good sport, the kid who claps loudest for everyone, who also isn't getting better as a player. in this episode i flip the letter over first: her daughter has already mastered the rarest skill in sports, being glad for other people out loud when she didn't win anything herself. then the diagnostic question that changes the whole answer: whose frustration is this, hers or yours? if she's content, a flat stretch in a kid who loves showing up is not an emergency. improvement curves at this age are jagged, and half the time a plateau is the deep breath before the leap. if she's the one frustrated, improvement follows wanting, so ask what she wishes she were better at and work on exactly that. i also cover checking whether the practices actually teach anything, the trap of turning her gift into a consolation prize with one dangerous but, thanking the coach out loud because named things grow, and the long game: glue kids get kept, become captains, and keep getting picked for everything, forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices