Sports Girls Play, inspired by Tom Burgdorf, posted something really important. Something you just don’t read about very often.
I was a very average athlete. Yet gymnastics became my life.
It’s great to see someone thinking about the most of us.
Parenting the Average Athlete
If you have a child on a sports team, chances are they are an average athlete – after all, the stars are few and far between. Every team is made up of more average athletes than it is stars, yet so much self worth of parents and athletes is caught up in the star mentality.
When Tom Burgdorf’s Parenting an Athlete newsletter showed up in my inbox this morning, his first message really struck a chord with me:
Teams will always be comprised of athletes who are different. Teams will always have “starsâ€, “athletes with a little less of everything†and “athletes with even less of everything.†That is the way it has been, is now and will be in the future. The kids had better learn about it and get used to it.
They are going to be faced with the same situation in EVERY aspect of their life where there is a group. Middle school, high school, college, sports, business, relationships, everything. We can’t all be stars in everything we do. To learn that you are talented in some things and that others are more talented in other areas is a huge life lesson.
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A team is great because of a lot of people, not just the “stars. 
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