Teach Them To Struggle

As parents and coaches, a big part of our responsibility is to prepare our kids to struggle. We’ve seem to have forgotten that. It seems the aim has become to eliminate the adversity instead of teaching how to cope. Each time we eliminate an obstacle we rob someone of the opportunity to prove to themselves…

Be Careful (and appreciative of) What You Ask For

Vivian Hawes taught me a lot. She taught me the value of hard work, discipline and toughness. She taught me the most important word in the world is love (and, in its true form, it overcomes all). More important than those things, my mom taught me faith; how to pray about everything and worry about nothing….

It’s Not Them, It’s Us

“Kids are so different these days”, “This generation just doesn’t get it”, “Back when I was doing it, we were nothing like these kids”. I’m sure you have heard one of these sayings, or something that sounds extremely similar (like every T-Pain song). I AM TIRED OF ADULTS BLAMING KIDS FOR EVERYTHING. The problem doesn’t…