Parenting Through Soccer Trials and Troubles

About this episode

The episode explores parenting through the lens of youth sports and the challenges that come with it.

Send us Fan Mail This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, we record in the wild (nature: loud, unpredictable, vaguely threatening) and spiral into a conversation that includes, but is not limited to, youth sports, parenting philosophy, public behavior, small plastic instruments, and the general question of how any of us became adults. Somewhere in here a child learns something important about the human condition. We also explore parenting and resilience (how much is enough, how much is t...

Topics covered

• parenting
• youth sports
• resilience
• public behavior
• adulting

Keywords

• parenting
• soccer
• youth sports
• resilience
• public behavior
• human condition

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