Help Your Mom & Dad Support You!

One of our goals at FREE2COMPETE is to help high school or college athletes like you take back and own your athletic experience.

I was asked to write an article for sports parents by a good friend, Jay Slagle. Jay, aka PrepRunningNerd, runs a team of volunteers promoting high school cross country and track & field in Nebraska. He posted the article on his website and you can find it linked below.

While this article was written for parents, I think it would be beneficial for you to read this article. Your journal activity below will be connected to it.

JOURNAL ACTIVITY

If you could speak honestly and freely with your parents about the role they play in your athletic experience, what would you like to say to them?

How would you encourage them in the things they are doing well?

What are some boundaries that you would like establish to help you OWN your athletic experience?

How could you involve them better? Because this is also a special opportunity for them to make powerful memories with you, but you have to let them in!

CHALLENGE

If you are going to take back and own your athletic experience, you are going to have use your words and talk to them. If you aren’t sure how to start that conversation, just follow through on what I recommend in the article. Ask them to read it and set a time, maybe over some ice cream, that you can discuss it with them. Share what you wrote in your journal for today’s activity.