Ep 38 The team is cutting three kids and my son doesn't know yet.

https://heysammi.com/  when should you tell your child that roster cuts are coming? a dad in pittsburgh wrote to me carrying a secret: the club told parents that three kids will be cut at season's end, and his son doesn't know. in this episode i give him the when, which is now, this week. kids hear everything, and half-knowing is worse than knowing. and if the cut lands months from now and he learns dad knew the whole time, the roster decision becomes a trust problem. then the how: information, not prophecy. what the club announced, plainly, delivered somewhere with an exit, a drive or a walk, with no reassurances you can't back up. followed by the question that hands him the wheel: how do you want to play these next months? i cover the quiet parent homework, getting an honest read on his standing and building the floor of options so bad news lands on something solid. i also walk through cut day itself if it comes, why your first sentence is about him and not the club, grief before logistics, and the scenario nobody plans for: when he survives the cut and his friends don't. how he treats those kids will teach him more than the roster spot ever could. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices