What Sports Parents are Really Yelling At w/Jonathan Carone

What Sports Parents are Really Yelling At w/Jonathan Carone

From The Struggle Bubble by Chad Kutting and Craig Surgey

June 3, 2026 · 1h 8m · Episode 45

About this episode

The episode discusses the emotional challenges and realities faced by sports parents, featuring insights from Jonathan Carone.

You've been the parent yelling. Or you've been the parent watching the parent yelling and thinking thank God that's not me, also it's kind of me sometimes. That's where Jonathan Carone started Healthy Sports Parents — standing on a sideline watching a dad reduce his nine-year-old to tears, feeling sympathy for the girl and empathy for the dad. Eighteen months and 100K+ Instagram followers later, Jonathan joins Chad and Craig to talk about the part of youth sports nobody puts on a brochure: the way it holds a mirror up to the parts of you that haven't been processed. The pride that swells when your kid scores. The rage that flashes when they jog. The 13-year-old running at your kid in a corner kick, who somehow turns into the kid who slammed you into a wall in 1999. We go places this conversation usually doesn't: Why the dads who knew the game best left rec league — and why that left Jim the Accountant coaching your eight-year-old off YouTube tutorials The "self-love and self-glory" framework Jonathan teaches in module one of his course — and why it explains every parent meltdown you've ever witnessed The middle-school cliff that nobody talks about (top 10 of 300 kids make the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chad Kutting, Craig Surgey

Guest: Jonathan Carone

Topics covered

  • youth sports
  • parenting
  • emotional impact
  • sports psychology
  • self-love
  • youth sports regulations

Keywords

  • sports parents
  • youth sports
  • parenting
  • emotional reactions
  • self-love framework
  • Let Kids Play Act
  • youth sports coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Healthy Sports Parents

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