Lauren’s Reviews > Away Game: A Christian Parent’s Guide to Navigating Youth Sports > Status Update

Car ride home is not the moment to teach our kids. "Is there anything from the game today that you wanna talk about?" If someone reminded me about this question in a couple years.... it would be perfect even when picking a kid up from school. "Is there anything from school today that you want to talk about?" Let them decompress, with music, food, quiet, safety.

We can still value winning without allowing it to strangle fun in our pursuit of it

Pride commits to a life of mediocrity (because we're not open to receiving wise input) and image management (because we're always trying to get others to think highly of us).

"If an athlete comes from a Christian family, but their moral instruction was never forced to intersect with their athletic endeavors, it creates a secular/sacred divide that spills into everything they do, training them to keep their faith separate from the parts of their life they care most about"