Good Advice For Parents Who Give Bad Advice - Junior Golf Edition
This with Krish Show by Krish Dhokia
Episode notes
When your kid starts playing competitive sports, something incredible happens: suddenly EVERYONE becomes a coach.
Parents. Grandparents. Friends. Other parents. The guy at the driving range. Everyone has a tip, a correction, a swing thought, or an opinion.
But even good advice at the wrong time can become bad advice.
In this episode of THIS WITH KRISH, I talk about youth sports from the perspective of a parent raising an 8-year-old competitive junior golfer. We get into coaching, parental pressure, practice, motivation, winning, losing, tournament expectations, and one of the hardest lessons for sports parents to learn:
Sometimes the best thing you can do is stop coaching and just be Mom or Dad.
Your child's coach can analyze mechanics. The leaderboard can measure performance. The stats can show improvement.
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