The Fat Lady Has Sung: When Sports, High School, and Childhood End All at Once

About this episode

This episode reflects on the emotional transitions faced by a family as high school sports and graduation come to an end.

Send us Fan Mail Thank you so much for being here!!! This week's episode is a reminder that endings and beginnings often exist side by side. After losing the state championship lacrosse game in golden goal overtime, my son's high school sports career came to an end - as well as my role as a sports mom, and my family's identification as a sports family. With graduation this week too, we find ourselves in a strange emotional limbo, and it would be easy to think this is a story about sports. But...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Jennifer Brubaker

Topics covered

• endings
• beginnings
• sports
• high school
• emotional limbo
• parenting

Keywords

• sports career
• high school sports
• parenting
• emotional transitions
• graduation
• lacrosse

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