I’m getting burned out on sore losers.
I have a good question I would like everyone to weigh in on. If your kid is on top of the food chain, and getting 1st place 90% of the time, why do people think he will burn out before high school? All this talk about wrestling being fun and games until high school is malarkey. You can pretend that you don’t care if your kid wins or looses but your not fooling me or anyone else. Family values and hard work pay off! If you sit down and explain to your kids the value of life and making all the right choices he or she will grow into a champion. What I am trying to say is that you don’t have to threaten your kids and make them do things they don’t want to in order to see them achieve victory. I’m sick of all the excuses on why kids get beat. Its clear that one works harder then the other. To suggest that dad is way to hard is stupid. You are to easy on your kid! Take your kid to practice and get involved. Some of you know that you treat your kids like crap and you think it will toughen them up. It wont work! Just accept the fact that kids mature at different rates and jerking them off the mat in front of there friends wont make them wrestle any faster or stronger.
It is absolutely a waste of time to go to practice and watch your kid do half pushups and play around all night. For 2 hours a night my kid listens to his coach and maintains discipline. After that we screw off and tell jokes. (KID STUFF)
“Kids need to be kids”. How many times have you heard that? (only when he wins, right?) Boats, jet skis, sleepovers, campouts, bikes, cool friends…………my kids get to do lots of kid stuff.
Talk to your kids like they are one of your friends and you would be surprised at how well things will turn out.
The same people that talk all this stuff about kids burning out in high school don’t even have kids in high school. I think in some way they are trying to justify there kids loss.
Just because you wrestled in college or high school doesn't qualify your son as a star wrestler. And just because you never wrestled in college or high school doesn't mean your kid wont be a star wrestler. It all starts somewhere.
It's all up to the coach and our coach is obviously doing his job.
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