Parenting a Kid to Athlete

Summary

• Parents have a major role in developing their kid into an athlete.
• The goal is to develop a happy, healthy, and high performing athlete
• Kid to Athlete was created to help educate parents so that they can develop an athlete that is ready for sports and life.
• Coaches only have a small amount of time with the team. Making it difficult to work with an individual player for an extended period of time.
• Being aware of small things can help a parent develop a complete athlete.

Full Transcript

So you have kids, that's great, but if you're like me, you want your kids to be athletes and not just any athlete. You want them to be happy, healthy, high-performing athletes. That's what Kid to Athletes for. To help parents raise athletes. Yes, I said parents because we have the hugest opportunity to raise and develop a happy, healthy, high-performing athlete.

 The coach only has so much time and they're probably going to work with them physically, but we have a lot more ability to work with different elements of being an athlete. My name is David Sabi here with Kid to Athlete and I want to help you raise an athlete by doing a couple things.

 Sharing my experiences as well as current research on how to raise an athlete. As well as try to change the definition of athlete. Because I think the definition currently is hurting our kids. If you want more information or my thoughts on the definition of athlete, just look at my video called The Definition of Athletes.

 So how, as a parent, can you help your kid become an athlete or develop into a happy, healthy, high performing athlete? By simply doing little things. Little things like being aware of body language. Because body language or what I like to call a hidden language is saying a lot to you. When you see your athlete come off the field, let's say off of a bad game and their eyes are down, they're not looking like they're really happy with how they played.

 Probably a good time not to talk about the game the whole way home. You might want to give them their safe space. When they understand that that safe space is always going to be there for them, they may improve their performance later on in the future. In the future, they'll know, hey, when the game's over, I can go to my safe space.

 I'm going to be okay. So during the game they can push their limits. Otherwise, if they don't have that safe space, they're never going to push their limits and improve and become a great athlete. That's what I hope to bring with Kid to Athlete. More little things that you can do to make a big difference. So thanks for watching. Hit the subscribe button and I will see you on another video.