This Week's Playbook. The mouthguard has vanished, the one store still open sells only the deluxe version, and a $3 item is somehow now a $47 morning. This week gets into why the gear keeps disappearing and how to make forgetting cheap again.
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How to Stop Letting One Forgotten Item Turn Into a $47 Errand
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You forgot the mouthguard, and it is not in the bag, or the car, or anywhere.
So now you are at the one open store, buying the deluxe one, while you run late.
That $20 thing just became a $47 morning, and it happens all season long.
Here is the system that makes forgetting cheap again.
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TOOLS FOR YOUR ATHLETE
The Real Reason Kids Forget Their Gear
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You are already at the field when you realize the cleats are still by the back door at home.
Practice starts in minutes. There is no fixing it now.
It turns out forgetting has less to do with carelessness than with a planning brain that is still under construction.
Here are five tools that hand the remembering to your kid.
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