Seeking advice on raising high level athletic children

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  • youawarebrah

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    2 years ago 01/21/2022 4:27pm EST
    re: Slik Rik

    Slik Rik wrote:

    dopedgills13 wrote:

    most of our superstar athletes in the usa didnt even have father figures growing up. It's honestly rare for a star nba/nfl player to have a dad in their life.

    Two GOATs... Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Both very much influenced by fathers in the home.

    MJ didn't play on expensive traveling teams, have personal coaches paid for by helicopter parents, and did not specialize in one sport like a lot of parents push their kids to do.

    MJ also had insane genetics. Enormous hands, a 48 vertical. Incredible court vision. Try and coach your kids to do that OP! I am 100% convinced he could have grown up in a crack house and made his way to the NBA. Cope all you want, but you can stress all you want about making your kids athletes, but the kids growing up in foster homes with a 48 inch verticals will dominate your kids 100% of the time anyways.

  • recruiting tips

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    2 years ago 01/21/2022 4:29pm EST
    re: Slik Rik

    Slik Rik wrote:

    Nat Hickey wrote:

    I really do not understand people who read something someone has written and then decide the writer meant something else, something the writer did not say. How did you conclude that I said what you think I said? Do you want me to comment on Arch Manning? Assuming you do I'll just say that neither of us knows what would have happened to him if he grew up with a single mom in a trailer park. He might have needed to drop out of school to work and never gotten into football. Or he could have gotten into football and been as good or even better than he is now but no matter what the outcome was it means nothing relative to what will happen with your kids.

    I think you are admitting to the fact that what goes on in the home of a child can influence what happens with the child's future. I think we can both agree that is a fact.

    Given that fact. I don't see how seeking advice from people who have had athletic success is a waste of time. Like learning from others to consciously change my behaviors so that I might get closer to a desired outcome is some kind of insanity. Seems like people think I'm playing god or something by trying to push my kid a certain direction. I think its called parenting unless I have gone insane.

    Whenever anyone on LR asks a question related to parenting or helping a runner, there are always several posters who come in screaming about horrible abusive moms or dads and how even trying to figure out how to be a support means you are a monster. It doesn’t matter what the OP says, their take is the same.

    They have issues and I think it best to just wholesale ignore them.

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    HRE

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    2 years ago 01/21/2022 4:46pm EST
    re: Slik Rik

    What goes on in the home of a child can influence what happens in the child's future? In other news, it's dark at night. Of course what goes on in the home influences a child's future. But it is not possible to know how that influence will play out over the years. So yes, trying to get anything more than a desired outcome for your kids can kind of flirt with something resembling insanity if you're trying for an outcome that's years in the future. And even if you get the desired outcome you have no way of knowing if doing so is a good or bad thing. Have things like being good and happy people as your desired outcome and don't get much more specific than that. If your kids enjoy a sport help them be good and happy people by helping them get better at that sport and to enjoy if for the present. Let the long term future find it's way to them.

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    2 years ago 01/21/2022 6:31pm EST
    re: Slik Rik

    Slik Rik wrote:

    dopedgills13 wrote:

    most of our superstar athletes in the usa didnt even have father figures growing up. It's honestly rare for a star nba/nfl player to have a dad in their life.

    Two GOATs... Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Both very much influenced by fathers in the home.

    Slick Ric, where have you been the last four days?

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