Ep 39 I coach my daughter and i'm harder on her than anyone. is that fair?

https://heysammi.com/ how do you coach your own child without playing favorites? a dad in st. louis wrote to me terrified of being accused of favoritism, so he's deliberately harder on his daughter than anyone on the roster. in this episode i name what that actually is: favoritism aimed backwards. she's being treated differently because of who her father is, which is the exact thing he was trying to avoid. i share what kids of coach parents consistently say the hard part is, and it's not the field. it's that dad never turns it off, the whistle that follows them into the car and to the dinner table. then the fix: the two-hat system with a hard line between coach and dad, announced out loud after practice. equal praise when she earns it, at full volume. touchy corrections handed to an assistant. and car rides that belong to her. i also cover catching yourself out loud when the coach voice shows up at dinner, why giving her permission to call it out is the whole game, recruiting one honest mirror at field level, and the only review that counts, the one she writes years from now that starts with my dad coached me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices