How To Raise Confident Kids Through Youth Sports (with David Epstein)

David Epstein has spent years making the case for range, exploration, and giving kids time to discover what fits. His new book, Inside the Box, makes what initially sounds like the opposite argument: sometimes we need more constraints, not more options.

David joins Jonathan Carone to explore what happens when you put those two ideas together in youth sports and parenting. They wrestle with some of the messier questions parents face:

When does persistence become a sunk cost?

How do you know when it's okay to let your kid quit?

Why can immediate feedback actually make things worse?

How can we give kids enough structure to grow without taking away the curiosity that helps them figure out who they want to become?

It's a conversation about giving kids room to explore, challenges that help them grow, and the freedom to fail while they're figuring it all out.

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