Episode 48: Are We Measuring the Wrong Things?

How do you know if your child has had a good season?Is it the wins, the times, the goals, the scores, the selections, the levels or the medals? They all matter — that's sport. But they don't always tell us whether a young athlete is actually developing.In Episode 48 of The FX Factor, I take the scoreboard away and look at what progress can really look like across youth sport. We talk about the seasons where results go backwards while development moves forward, the importance of independence and coachability, why comparing kids can give us a completely false picture, and the qualities that will never appear on a results sheet.Because a scoreboard can tell you what happened on the day. It can't tell you everything that happened while your child was getting there.Maybe it's time we started measuring a little more than the result.