re: Private sports lessons for your child...video it?

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Pro tip: if you are a good parent, your kids are going to hate you for a lot of things. Until they get a good bit older. Then they’re going to appreciate a lot of things.

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Agreed. A parent's first job is not to be a friend. A parent first and foremost should create a safe, supportive environment that both challenges the child and encourages them to pursue their talents. This doesn't mean signing your kid up for every travel ball team with Brayden that wins six rings a summer. But sometimes it means lessons with a swing coach or a guitar instructor or being on the swim team until the kid can explain to you why they don't want to do that activity and what interests they have that they would rather vigorously pursue instead.

The human brain isn't done developing until a few years after a kid typically moves away from his parents. Kids will do dumb things with no guidance. It's a parent's job to figure out when to push and how hard. Often, if a parent doesn't guide the kid has no self discipline. Also, if the parent guides ineffectively, the kid may come to hate authority