Sports Mom Math
What youth sports cost — and what they're worth.
A newsletter about youth sports, competition, confidence, and the arithmetic of raising kids who want things badly. Twice a month.
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The belief
- Winning matters.
- Losing matters more often.
- Competition is not a character flaw.
- Rest is not a lack of commitment.
- Quitting can be the brave thing.
- Ambition is not something a girl should apologize for.
- A boy can want it badly and still be allowed to feel it.
- And the value of a season is very rarely on the scoreboard.
Latest issues
Somebody Has to Be the Realist
You cannot hedge a dream. You can only spend the joy early.
The Last Game
Every kid plays a last game. Almost none of them know it's happening while it happens.
Teach Her the Math. Just Not How to Subtract Herself.
She scores, and says she got lucky. I've watched it happen a couple of hundred times.
The free thing
The Season Number
A one-page worksheet that tells a parent what one kid’s season actually costs.
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