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[quote=Anonymous]I think I know where you are coming from.

Maybe?

Are you wanting to see the investment “pay off”?

Are you worried he will be disappointed in the future with where he has reached if he doesn’t work on touches now?

In my case, my kid had lofty goals. I gently shared the work that goes into being at the top and said I’d support them however I could. I said it would be hard work and described some of the types of choices they would have to make.

Long story short, they wanted to choose friends and relationships over “moving up.” It was hard to let this play out because I didn’t want them to feel pain or have regrets.

They wanted to attend a big D1 school and we had to explain who becomes a D1 player. They could see the D1 and D3 schools where their teammates were going and decide if that path was for them or not.

They are at their D1 school and probably won’t even try out for the club team. They want to do other things and we are very happy for them to do that.

The whole process was child led and they are happy with their decision and we have a strong relationship.

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