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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have a child who went pro?  Or at least play in college?

It sounds like you were all pushing your kids to be on the top club teams but the kids weren’t good enough.  I’m sure there are options to play sports where it’s not competitive but some won’t accept that.[/quote]

Not yet but we have a kid who wants to. And we don’t really get involve with his “setbacks”. We’ve told him that the only thing you can control is your reaction to setbacks. His mindset has always been that so long as he believes in himself, no one else’s opinion of him should change that. We’ve also told him if you start to think that you’re the best player on your team, you need to move elsewhere. In other words, his base is discomfort, that is, he should always be working for something more. If you have long-term goals, setback are just little bumps in that journey.

We do our part to make sure he has non athletic hobbies if he needs an outlet if he gets injured, a robust circle of friends outside of his sport who has no idea or don’t really care how good he is at his sport, and high academic expectations. [/quote]

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