This Week's Playbook. The gear bag hits the floor after dark, the make-up work is still open on the laptop, and your kid wonders out loud if they even want to do this next year. This week is about the questions a serious season drops in your lap, answered on purpose instead of in the parking lot.
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PARENTS’ CORNER
The Math That Makes Online School Add Up for Serious Athletes
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Your kid trains before the first bell and gets home after dark, and school still has to fit somewhere.
The travel days stack up, the make-up work stacks higher, and the bell schedule was never built for this.
There's a way to make the calendar bend around training.
Here's when online school is the right call, and when it isn't.
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TOOLS FOR YOUR ATHLETE
When Your Kid Says "I Want to Quit": 4 Things They Might Actually Mean
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It comes out flat from the backseat: "I don't want to do this anymore."
Half of you wants to talk them out of it, half wants to rescue them, and both answers arrive before you know the question.
"I want to quit" is really 4 messages in the same words.
Here's the one question that tells you which one.
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