S4E28: How to Help Your Child Thrive in Sports Despite Learning Differences

This episode explores how parents and coaches can better support children with ADHD and dyslexia in sports, emphasizing communication, understanding processing differences, and fostering confidence.

 

Chapters

 

00:00 Navigating Youth Sports and ADHD

11:09 The Importance of Early Communication with Coaches

18:27 Building Confidence Through Understanding

29:35 Playing vs. Thinking in Sports

 

Transcript

 

00:00:07:01 - 00:00:26:13

Unknown

The questions that we're getting, which we have gotten for years. But it's a lot right now with, you know, especially youth sports, college, the portal, all of these things, people are trying to get legs up, but we're talking like these little kids that are just starting and their parents are asking, okay, the whiteboard comes out and I can see my kid shrink.

 

00:00:26:14 - 00:00:48:14

Unknown

He's talented, I know he's athletic, but we're at that next level. Like the 8 to 10 year olds we're now. It's like the tactics and different things. And we've had some parents reach out and basically asking, what do they do? Can you kind of take us there when if someone was talking to you on the phone and that's the question they asked you, like, okay, the whiteboards out, my kid is shrinking and they don't want to go back.

 

00:00:48:16 - 00:01:38:12

Unknown

Well, you know, so there are you know, there's a few things to it. You know, we'll go back to you. Let's address, your kid has ADHD first. You know, I remember when I was coaching, I got a call and, you know, so ADHD, if we, if a kid sit in there standing on set, you know, in the desk or standing on the ice looking at that whiteboard, and if we are sitting still trying to focus so hard on what the teacher is saying or what the coach is riding on that board, whatever drill, whatever sport, lacrosse or soccer or basketball or hockey, we're focusing so hard on trying to pay attention, trying to

 

00:01:38:12 - 00:02:17:23

Unknown

understand what the writing and not to move. We don't understand one word that is coming out of the coach's mouth or what they're actually drawing on that board because you want us to sit still. And pay attention. That in itself is takes our so much focus. We actually don't focus on whatever is being written on that board. Whatever the drill, the coach's writing or whatever they are doing on that board, we are focusing.

 

00:02:18:01 - 00:02:40:20

Unknown

So let's be clear, we're focusing so hard that we're not understanding a word that that is being said, you know, because I remember, you know, and I'll expand that a coach Sega, I want to kick this kid off my team because every time I go to the board, the kid is moving his feet or the kid is always spinning.

 

00:02:40:22 - 00:03:09:13

Unknown

So the reason why I wanted to start with that is, okay, we don't listen the same way. A normal person without ADHD, you know, lessons, we fidget. We've been around, right? We we all, we move around. We're always. We're always doing something, you know, with our hands, you know, with our head, our arms or whatever that is.

 

00:03:09:15 - 00:03:41:12

Unknown

But we are focusing in our own way. So I said to the coach, I said, is this kid X disrupting you by shooting a puck or hitting another kid, or disrupting what you're talking about in in any other way than him moving? The coach said, no. I said, okay, the kid does the kid no. What's going on? After they leave?

 

00:03:41:14 - 00:04:05:08

Unknown

Yes, I said, the kid is listening in their own way, in an ADHD way, you know, if you ever will, if there's ever a video of me when I was an NHL, you know, and, standing on the Bruin national anthem, I'm dancing. I got my feet moving. And, you know, I'm. We're always moving for us to sit still.

 

00:04:05:08 - 00:04:34:15

Unknown

So I said, okay, let me ask you. He's not interrupting you. He understands what you're saying when he goes back. So what's the problem? Oh, he's not staying still. That's again an ADHD thing, right? We're always moving. We're always fidgeting. So you want to kick him off the team because he's not standing 100% statue Liberty still, how is that fair to a kid?

 

00:04:34:17 - 00:04:57:13

Unknown

So it took me a long time to get through. Through. You know, they want he literally wanted to throw the kid off the ice or excuse me, off the team. He's like, he's always getting to the restroom, getting dressed, fooling around. He was making the kid go dress and dress all by himself. So I said, well, how good, how good are you making the kid feel?

 

00:04:57:15 - 00:05:05:17

Unknown

You know, so I wanted to to start there. So, you know, people have an understanding of that portion.

 

00:05:05:19 - 00:05:45:22

Unknown

Now, there's also you have processing. So if the board is there and some people are good at the board, some can draw good picture, some can good. You know, some kids can or coaches can draw great drills. Some can. So it's understanding that we process that information a lot slower than what a normal person does. So parents yes you need to go talk to the to the coach.

 

00:05:46:00 - 00:06:00:06

Unknown

We need to touch and feel. So looking at the board and seeing the coaches saying okay, do this, this and this.

 

00:06:00:07 - 00:06:05:22

Unknown

That's seeing that's not touching and feel it.

 

00:06:06:00 - 00:06:38:17

Unknown

So for me, you know, a lot of times, you know, in hockey we always made a joke. There's always a drill buster. He'd screw up or she would screw up every single drill. Why. Because that kid hadn't process completely processed the whole drill. Maybe they only got half of it there. So they're focusing so far on what went on, what the coaches are asking, what the drill is asking, the processing, the processing.

 

00:06:38:17 - 00:07:14:17

Unknown

The coaches done. Coach says, does everybody understand? And the kid still processing, the kids still processing, still processing. Okay, let's get in line. Still processing, still processing. And I've had many coaches. Why does the kid that's still processing doesn't understand and want to go first? Because the kid thinks he understands the full drill because he just processed the the first half and he's so excited.

 

00:07:14:21 - 00:07:38:17

Unknown

She's so excited to go first because she or he has processed the first part of that drill. You know, I've got energy enthusiastic to get out there and do it. And the the coaches think they understand it. They only understand a portion of it. Then they go and fuck it up. And we call it the drill buster, right?

 

00:07:38:17 - 00:07:55:12

Unknown

Yeah, yeah, all that blah blah blah blah. Yeah. So I was always the drill buster. I never wanted to go first. I always wanted to see someone go because then once I saw it, then I was like, okay, I get it. And my coaches all the time made me go first because they knew I was going to fuck it up and then they would stand there and put their hands on my shoulders.

 

00:07:55:12 - 00:08:11:04

Unknown

What did I do wrong? And then like, let's walk it through. And it was it was always the big joke. But it was like, no, I don't want to go first. Can I see someone else do it? But they knew I was going to mess it up, and then we're going to have to walk it through. So whatever that is, I mean, yeah, oh, I saw what?

 

00:08:11:04 - 00:08:16:15

Unknown

That sucked. But that's exactly what feeling right. Like so.

 

00:08:16:17 - 00:08:39:16

Unknown

Touching is feeling is walking through the drill. Right. So you know I, I had a, I had a dad then I spoke to the coaches early this year. So I said to the coaches, I said, okay, when you walk through the drill right on the board, whatever built your then the kid, you know, again he said, oh he always wants to go first.

 

00:08:39:16 - 00:08:56:11

Unknown

I said, I understand that we get excited. We think we're going to be able to do something. We're so excited to do it. So I said, then you go back to the back of the back. The line with him, you'll have a coach down there and watch drill. Or did you you know, if you can actually it's always the best.

 

00:08:56:11 - 00:09:20:18

Unknown

If you can find your dyslexic or right, you know, and walk with them through the drill, it kind of goes back to your point as being that first person to do it. All right. Go up here and you turn here. Then you do this and you do that. Whatever. Walking with the, you know, skating with them, running with them, walking with them to, you know, through the drill that's touching and feeling.

 

00:09:20:20 - 00:09:38:03

Unknown

Now that's not always possible, right. That you picked the dyslexia to go through. So you go put the kid in the back the line and, you know, stand there with them. All right. Do you see your Juliet's doing. You see what I'm sure. And you see what it's doing. You see I went up there and you're going to go over here.

 

00:09:38:05 - 00:10:09:06

Unknown

That's touching and feeling for us. Yes. Is is it take a little bit extra 100%. But that's you know, when it comes to, to the board that's touching and feeling. Obviously we're visual learners. We're not audio right. So visual support we need to see it okay. We see that drill and not whiteboard okay. Where's my whiteboard. Oh it's and you know it's in it's in the garage.

 

00:10:09:07 - 00:10:34:00

Unknown

So now we see it. Now we need to touch it and we need to feel it, touching it, feeling it is walking through the drill or seeing, you know, somebody else walking and walking through that drill and going, you know, and doing it. All my drills that I did when I was coaching, obviously, I went to the board.

 

00:10:34:01 - 00:11:09:17

Unknown

Drew it on the board, then I walked back. Then I would do it, you know, if it was a single person, you know, then then I would run through it and get a couple of kids, whatever I was to do it so that everybody could see it, but then everybody could touch it and feel it. Okay, so my question for you is, and I have an answer to some that you answer first, and then I'm going to chime in, when is the right time for a parent to talk to the organization or the coach?

 

00:11:09:19 - 00:11:40:02

Unknown

You know, a the right time is immediately. Once you have the diagnosis. And now why? And I'll know. I'll walk you through, my day yesterday. So, Mr. Spring cleaning dog was past. She's so mad. Elizabeth had washing rugs in her bed and moved her bed. And she was angry. So I've been wanting to get a chainsaw. I got some trees going, Elizabeth.

 

00:11:40:04 - 00:12:10:00

Unknown

Like, go to your favorite store, the tractor store supply store, and buy a chainsaw. So I go there, I'm looking through, I see, see the one, you know, they're there on the wall. Had Hannah, so she come over, unlock for me. All right. Now I can't find it. Was busy in there. They're short staffed. I couldn't find, anybody, but I wouldn't ask them anyways, and I'll get there.

 

00:12:10:00 - 00:12:46:16

Unknown

So I open up the chainsaw, and I spent about ten, 15 minutes trying to read it. Manual to find out what oil I needed. What engine type is it? Gas. Oil mixture. What was it all of? I'm panicking. Right. Because I'm trying to read this thing. Well, there's five, 10,522 million words. Couldn't understand, didn't understand one word. Probably took me five minutes just to find out where the area where I needed to be.

 

00:12:46:18 - 00:13:08:05

Unknown

Now, how my bucket I'm going to go. I'm going to buy it. I'm going to go home. I'm going to calm down, pull up a video and try to understand a better now. I will never ask for help in a store.

 

00:13:08:07 - 00:13:56:18

Unknown

Because what if he looks at me and says, you don't know this, you're dumb. What are you talking about? Of course, if you're buying chain, you should know this. He's not going to. But that's why I think. Right. So now those are the things that get in. Yo, you get in our head right? So the longer that you don't tell a coach or the organization, those are the kind of things that creep in because you know, how many times how in school or he doesn't know, want to help in class or he doesn't want to help, you know, in a drill.

 

00:13:56:20 - 00:14:34:09

Unknown

Right? Because these are the things that go in our head. So as soon as you can find out what's if you've got a diagnosis, you know, dyslexia, ADHD, whatever that is, you need to go and talk to. That coach or the organization so that you can bring down the anxiety for that kid. Well and and so and the importance is and there's a lot of parents I know I was one of them, in the beginning because school was always so awful for Montgomery.

 

00:14:34:09 - 00:14:57:18

Unknown

Right. I didn't want like and that's where he shined on the sports fields, so I didn't I was like, oh, we're just not going to we're going to ignore that, right? This is the place that he's free. We don't have to worry about his dyslexia. I don't have to worry about this. He can just be right and then as he got, he was super athletic as he got into more of the complicated stuff that, you know, there would be times where he's, you know, come home and say a coach thinks I'm not listening.

 

00:14:57:18 - 00:15:15:20

Unknown

And then I was like, oh, okay, I know what this is, right? Because I used to get that all the time. My coaches would scream, just fucking pay attention. Like, you know, you know, what you're doing and whatever. And so, we sat down, down myself and Montgomery and we're like, I think it's time that we start talking to the coaches and we should have done it earlier.

 

00:15:15:20 - 00:15:38:10

Unknown

But again, it didn't. It wasn't an issue for him in the younger years of and he played all, every, every sport. He didn't play hockey because that was too early in the morning for me. But every other sport and it was, it just came out right. He just was natural. So when it all of a sudden and did, we did sit down and then we also gave him the words as he grew, you know, I mean, now he's in college.

 

00:15:38:10 - 00:15:57:19

Unknown

That is something that he talks to the coaches all the time, like, you know that it's not that I'm not paying attention. I'm a step behind it in process that if you can pull me off. And so even when he was playing high level here in Long Island, you know, traveling all over the country, we would see his coach and we loved him because he would pull them off and just be like and say something to him.

 

00:15:57:19 - 00:16:20:08

Unknown

And you could see Montgomery like, oh, all right. Like. And so he was able to do it. And that's the touching and feeling and getting the like. The coach didn't scream at him and pull him out like you fucked it up. Right. Which would happen often to I mean, it happened to me, you know, growing up. So he anytime he would get to a new team, we would in the beginning, just like we would get the coach's name right.

 

00:16:20:08 - 00:16:37:00

Unknown

You get all the you're you're looking at the website. Oh, what team am I? What team did I make a team, you know, and then finding out the coach and then basically saying we just want to let you know Montgomery is dyslexic and he's going to process differently. If he seems like he doesn't know what he's doing, it's just because he hasn't processed it.

 

00:16:37:00 - 00:16:59:01

Unknown

He's not fooling around. He's not in the clouds. It just is going to take him a second. And the second he gets it, he's golden. So if you can just be patient and work with him and every time we would have someone say, thank you so much for telling me that. Thank you for stopping and telling me you don't know how much that information means.

 

00:16:59:03 - 00:17:17:06

Unknown

And then they had this great relationship. Now, Montgomery is also a really good kid. He wasn't someone disrupting practice, but even if he was the coach who'd been able to say hey, like and pull him aside and do a thing, it's hard. It's hard to be a coach, but it's also hard to be a kid. It's hard to be a parent in this when you know that your kid is at a certain level, but maybe the coach doesn't understand them.

 

00:17:17:11 - 00:17:33:18

Unknown

So going in. But very respectfully, I just want you to understand we want this to be a great experience for everyone. This is where he succeeds or she succeeds. So this is like their safe space where they have the confidence. I mean, I remember there was one year where I was like, motherfucker, I'm going to kill that coach.

 

00:17:33:18 - 00:17:57:05

Unknown

And this is before we did. And I was like, if he's going to take his confidence from this place, this is the place that he has all his confidence. And that was like, you know, working through. So I know what parents are feeling when they're like, okay, this is like your kid's athletic. A lot of times when you, you know, someone that's dyslexic, ADHD a lot, and I'm not going to I don't know the percentage, but we are that is one of our strengths is athletics.

 

00:17:57:05 - 00:18:20:20

Unknown

So having that open conversation early but not aggressively, not when it becomes a problem, when there's heated tension, but early, just letting them know he's going to learn a little different. If you can just work with us and I'm happy to give you information, we a lot of times gave information about dyslexia. If the coach didn't know, a lot of times coach was like, oh my God, my sister was dyslexic or my brother was dyslexic, or my best friend was dyslexic.

 

00:18:20:20 - 00:18:42:13

Unknown

I understand I got you and it really was so much better if we did it in the beginning and not waited, you know, and then, you know, when you go to, you know, when you go to the coach, you know, you talk. We obviously use paid attention or process information. You know, you've got to attach some information with it.

 

00:18:42:15 - 00:19:11:06

Unknown

So coaches you know coaches obviously are you know, aren't dyslexic in the most part. Right. So you know, you know, the kid in your head, you know, we're talking about spinning. You know, he this is what he usually does. You know, he's processing this information. He's understanding who's listening. What you're saying, you need to have a little information attached to, you know, when you go there, you know, specially when you got an older coach.

 

00:19:11:08 - 00:19:40:17

Unknown

Now you got the old school coaches now, right? Just kind of like the way we grew up, right? It's. This is the way it is. The way I do it. I'm hard nosed. Right? You're you're going to you need to or attach more information to, you know, that conversation, more you have it, the better it's going, you know, the better is going to be, it's also, as a coach.

 

00:19:40:19 - 00:20:06:13

Unknown

If you're yelling at a kid, again, the key word is coaching, right? It's your job to understand the kids. But if you don't understand it, and you know, as a parent, you've got to help them understand it, because just like teachers, they don't understand dyslexia, right? So, you know, it's new, right? You and you talked about conference.

 

00:20:06:15 - 00:20:40:02

Unknown

We struggle everywhere except for usually at our sport. So that's where we get our confidence. So we have to find a way to harness that you know keep that going. And as a parent. If we don't arm them with all the information right, we're jeopardizing that confidence, in, you know, in going down and it's it's hard to find a coach to coach, your kid the right way without full understanding and sharing.

 

00:20:40:02 - 00:20:57:01

Unknown

The website is a great thing to share. It's a great thing to share with, with the coach sharing this open foundation, dawg. You can also share this episode if the if you know, if the coach is driving to and from and they're like, I don't have time to read, you know, because we also have to be respectful for the coach.

 

00:20:57:03 - 00:21:14:18

Unknown

A lot of times the coaches are, you know, especially at the lower level, their parent volunteers, right, or their their coach. So they also have their stuff. But when they sit back and if you get them at the right time and you're respectful about it and you just I just want my kid to have the best experience, I'm not going to be all up in your shit.

 

00:21:14:20 - 00:21:28:23

Unknown

I, you know, I don't want to be all up in your shit. So if you can just work with me with helping them and if there's something that you see that you need me to talk to them about, I'm happy to, because we're just learning about it. You know, we're learning how they learn, especially if a parent doesn't have dyslexia.

 

00:21:29:00 - 00:22:05:10

Unknown

There's so many things that you can do. So again, you can share the this podcast. You can share the simple foundation, dawg. There's other things that you can share that are, in my opinion, a lot of words that can confuse someone. So you just want to share the least amount that easiest digestible, is is kind of what is important then, you know, when I was who, you know, we got an email I think this weekend, you know, and the the key words to me in that email that we got was, you know, gentlemen, so the son is, you know, six plays hockey.

 

00:22:05:11 - 00:22:41:11

Unknown

Just got diagnosed. How does that translate into hockey and how can we, I'm paraphrasing right now, how can we keep him, from getting less frustrated? So we get frustrated, right? You know, we you go to school, get frustrated now, you know, and that's kind of why I said the last year, the story of me, you know, trying to buy that changed I so I'm getting frustrated right, reading all this.

 

00:22:41:11 - 00:23:08:17

Unknown

So I decided I'm just going to go buy it right. And take it back to my own space and process the information the way I do. Same thing as a kid, right? We're on the ice. So coaches, you know, I, I remember I had a when I was coaching, kids are five and six. I had one dyslexic kid, you know, he was skating with the puck.

 

00:23:08:18 - 00:23:31:11

Unknown

Him and another kid would kind of fight for it. They fall down. And he kid that fall who's dyslexic got so mad, so angry. Then he start crying. So I gotta tell him when I'm like, you did a great job. Why are you crying? You did a great job, boy. Crying. I said it probably ten times. Then finally he stopped.

 

00:23:31:12 - 00:23:54:07

Unknown

Like you did a great job. Why are you crying? Then? You got a smile. So you did a great job. And he went back on line like there was nothing. So he got frustrated. Not that he got knocked down, that he didn't do it, that he fell right. What's wrong with me? Why couldn't I score the goal?

 

00:23:54:07 - 00:24:22:07

Unknown

Why did I fall down? All right, those are the things that get it, you know, you know, creep in our heads, you know, never in the rest of the practice. So he he get very. He would always get very angry and frustrated very quickly. And it wasn't at his teammates. It was like, you know for him was and that's for all of us is he just wanted to get it.

 

00:24:22:07 - 00:24:41:08

Unknown

He wanted to do it. What's wrong with me? Why can't I do it? He wasn't you know, he was he was an okay skater again. He was five and six years old. I know. I think he was. Yeah, he was in grade one. Maybe. You know, half the kids were in kindergarten. Either one. There were half a million half day kindergarten and and grade one.

 

00:24:41:08 - 00:25:03:13

Unknown

So you so for him, I kept everything positive. And his whole world changed. He comes to rink happy. You're doing a great job. You did a great job, right? You know, you fell. Get up. You did a good job. And that's why I always use a phrase you said a million times. You had to tell a dyslexic did a great, great, great, great job.

 

00:25:03:15 - 00:25:14:05

Unknown

Because how many frustration, how many points a brief, before that happened, did we struggle? Do we think we struggle? Right. So his anger.

 

00:25:14:07 - 00:25:40:12

Unknown

Was getting in the way of seeing that he could do it. Why? Oh, that's all the buildup that he's had for all the years. And just think he's six. Look at that anger. Now, if we let that go for another six years, it's going to be 12. How much more is that going to be? How much worse is it going to be.

 

00:25:40:14 - 00:26:02:12

Unknown

Right. So it's taking, you know, taking that approach as a coach and understanding, you know, understanding different things. You know he did a great job. He did a great job. You're doing good. Positive has to be in there for us. And it does and I agree with you. But it also there has to be and not when they're five and six five and six is it should be positive.

 

00:26:02:14 - 00:26:22:06

Unknown

But as they grow and you see that maybe there's something that can be adjusted and you can walk them through it. So like I know with Montgomery, like if he messed something up when he was a little older and he would be like frustrated because he'd be like, I knew it and I just didn't do it. If the coach said, you did a great job, he would have been pissed at the coach because he'd be like, I did not do a great job.

 

00:26:22:06 - 00:26:36:19

Unknown

Don't fucking blow smoke up, right? But he did a good job, okay? Did a good job. You have to you have to show them, you know. Yeah. You know a lot of kids know. Absolutely. Right. So then then it was like okay so Montgomery would go to coach would be like, okay, what did I do? What can I have changed in that?

 

00:26:36:19 - 00:27:06:23

Unknown

So this didn't happen right. And now and I want to take it to a little bit as the kids get older as well. So first year, freshman year, a first year of college. Montgomery called after I think it was like 3 or 4 practices. And he said, I want to it wasn't like, I want to poke your eyes out, but it was something like that because he's like, I my dyslexia has not gotten in the way of sports to this level.

 

00:27:07:01 - 00:27:27:14

Unknown

And oh my gosh, it is in my way right now. And I know now this is where I'm going to have to like step it up. Right. So like his skill and all of that. Like he was at par. But now it was like the field and the tactical and the speed and the way everything did. So he, you know, talked to coach and was like, okay, I'm dyslexic.

 

00:27:27:14 - 00:27:48:18

Unknown

Coach's daughter is dyslexic. So Montgomery was like like when that happens, when they say that, you're like, okay, he gets it right. So it's like, okay, coach, this is what I'm really struggling in. Can you work with me? So they would work with him, then they would get another player that that happens to be dyslexic and they're like, we're just going to share with you guys because you're both dyslexic and you know, if it's okay.

 

00:27:48:18 - 00:28:10:23

Unknown

He spoke to the other player before, like, can I have you work with Montgomery? And that's what he did. And it was like, hey, other dyslexic kid, can you? And they played similar positions. And so just being open like that and teaching your kid at a young level, and the whole reason why I'm saying this is teaching at your kid a young level, that it's okay and you're doing a good job because you're out there and building that confidence.

 

00:28:10:23 - 00:28:27:05

Unknown

So when they get to that next level, if that's what they're supposed to do, they're confident and asking for help because it's like, okay, I know I just learn different, but I want this. And so now I need to get to that next level. So having that open communication and, and the awareness of like, yeah, we all learn different.

 

00:28:27:05 - 00:28:44:19

Unknown

We all do things different. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. I know that this is a little bit of a kind of, what is that, like a screw in the wheel? What does that. But when in the work where it's like a hindrance, a little bit like the dyslexia wheels? No, I can't think of the term.

 

00:28:44:20 - 00:29:03:17

Unknown

I'm there. I go with my, like, terms. It's a little now. It's going to bother me. Whatever. It's it's the it's like the bump in the road. That's what it is. But it's the the wedge in the wheel. I don't know, like when you're driving. Okay. And you're a bump in the road. We'll say it that way.

 

00:29:03:23 - 00:29:21:19

Unknown

It's a little bump in the road as you're growing and you're advancing. But if you can, at the early ages, if your kid is diagnosed and they are, instead of being the parent, like as I was like, let's just pretend like it's not there because let it be a space that you can just be free and you don't have to be thinking about your dyslexia.

 

00:29:21:21 - 00:29:56:11

Unknown

And then it bit us a little bit. It was like, well, now you have to. So doing it early is important because you will never you have to play. What's your vision for me? If I could play hockey instead of think hockey, I was good. And no kid will ever be that way. Without understanding, I don't. Every kid will be think their sport before playing their sport.

 

00:29:56:13 - 00:30:16:00

Unknown

So, you know he's doing a drill, okay? He's thinking, where do I need to be next? Well, now you just screwed up the drill, right? You just screwed up the play. Now you just, you know, you coaches get mad, you're pulling you off because you had to think where you had to be next, right? It has to flow.

 

00:30:16:00 - 00:30:39:17

Unknown

So we have we have to get to the point where they're playing their sport not thinking their sport. Great point. And when they're out there at a young age, they're not thinking right. You know as the three year old you're not thinking right. You're right. Different than the 30 year olds, right? Yeah. Yeah. I you know, being a kid is easier than being out.

 

00:30:39:17 - 00:31:11:18

Unknown

Right? Because now an adult, you're thinking, all right, kid. So just like school gets harder, as they get older. And same with the sport. As they get older, it gets more tactical, it gets faster. Right? So any thinking comes involved instead of naturally playing, that's when they're not going to be successful. So the more that you can think of getting your kid to play the sport, not think the sport is what the ultimate goal is.

 

00:31:11:20 - 00:31:31:12

Unknown

And so having that support from a coach and the parent is essential. Yeah, we're going to leave it at that. Thanks for joining. And you going Google here will love this. Whatever. Someone's listening to this and laughing and saying it out loud I know what she's talking about. Thank you guys for another episode of Word Blindness dyslexia.

 

00:31:31:12 - 00:31:49:05

Unknown

Expose like rate review and share. Share this. You don't know who needs to hear this. Who right now is thinking, you know, a new sport has just spring sports have popped up this will kind of go out mid but like you know and then the summer and then fall all of this. But it's really essential to talk and get the support of your coach and the organization for.