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I need some advice.
As some people know, I have a kid that is a runner. Both track and cross country. She's now a HS freshmen and she's already getting some recruitment attention. She's repeatedly said that she IS interested in running in college and trains six days a week to back that up.
But...she's also 14, and boy are there distractions. She wavers between being an athlete, one of the best in the state (3rd in varsity overall at state and a pre-season Top 15 team member), and wanting the "teen life" of cell phones and sleepovers. She'll ask to do xyz, and I'll say, "no, you have a meet the next morning, you'll be exhausted." And I know this from experience, she wanted to do xyz and I said ok, meet the next morning and she had a subpar performance...to which she got all upset. Running is now a love-hate activity.
A lot of this I know is immaturity. I've told her that when she's an adult, she will look back on what she did with her talent and either smile or feel the regrets of wasting opportunities. We've probably all met people that were really good at a thing and let nonsense get in the way.
There's a fine line between pushing too much or too little. Looking for maybe what helped for you or your kid in a similar situation, maybe not even sports but some other talent.
As some people know, I have a kid that is a runner. Both track and cross country. She's now a HS freshmen and she's already getting some recruitment attention. She's repeatedly said that she IS interested in running in college and trains six days a week to back that up.
But...she's also 14, and boy are there distractions. She wavers between being an athlete, one of the best in the state (3rd in varsity overall at state and a pre-season Top 15 team member), and wanting the "teen life" of cell phones and sleepovers. She'll ask to do xyz, and I'll say, "no, you have a meet the next morning, you'll be exhausted." And I know this from experience, she wanted to do xyz and I said ok, meet the next morning and she had a subpar performance...to which she got all upset. Running is now a love-hate activity.
A lot of this I know is immaturity. I've told her that when she's an adult, she will look back on what she did with her talent and either smile or feel the regrets of wasting opportunities. We've probably all met people that were really good at a thing and let nonsense get in the way.
There's a fine line between pushing too much or too little. Looking for maybe what helped for you or your kid in a similar situation, maybe not even sports but some other talent.