What are your priorities right now…? There are lots of opinions on priorities…what I believe is that you can only really ever have 3. And, realistically they aren’t supposed to change. My three for a while have been Family, Coaching and Health…but every Saturday I like to swap out health in the diet sense for Ice Cream, because it just brings me so much enjoyment with almost no effort and adds to my overall mental health. you know, life is meant for living and what is living without a little coffee chip or mint Oreo ice cream. Let us know below what your three priorities are and how you feel about this rule of 3.

As we head into the weekends let’s all share a rose and a thorn from the busy week.

What is your relationship with feedback? Something that has stuck with me for a while as an educator and coach is that many people, especially kids, have a terrible relationship with feedback. In the US I think a lot of this comes from the fact that grade school doesn’t value feedback it only values results. I find myself asking the question a lot lately, “how can I shift my material in class to incentivize seeking feedback and criticism and remove the weight of the result.” When I’m on the field coaching, I always incentivize risk taking and mistakes because the training ground is a place to learn and failure and feedback are essential for learning. Yet in the more formal educational spaces, and I imagine professional spaces as well, we create a focus around the opposite. It only makes sense then that we would be developing students, athletes and people with a very poor relationship feedback. I wonder how you all feel about this and if you would like to share your relationship with feedback and your views on why you think so many young people avoid it. Take a minute to share your thoughts below and also provide an example of a time when failure was influential in reaching success.

As I work to finish the first stage of our classroom I am trying to collect some info from all the parents here about your biggest pain points over the years in developing your child/athlete. Drop a note below with the one thing causing you the most stress or creating the biggest wedge between you and your child.