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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 152148" data-attributes="member: 389">I understand what the coach/author is getting at, those who put in above average amounts of time training and practicing end up being more successful at that sport.&nbsp; Makes sense.However, we are talking youth athletics here.&nbsp; I am not trying to raise a football, basketball, soccer, or chess player.&nbsp; I am trying to raise a well rounded good person, not an athlete that I need to relive my own past through.&nbsp; When I lived in Grand Forks I saw people pushing their kids to excel at hockey so they could get a scholarship to UND and eventually end up in the NHL.&nbsp; Fugging seriously?&nbsp; The rest of the population had a name for such rabid parents, we called them &quot;puck&quot; heads.I find most ultra successful athletes to be one dimensional in their personality.&nbsp; No, I'm not necessarily talking about someone who simply wins a ND state championship in whatever sport, while that may indeed be you, accomplishments themselves are not required to be a puck head.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 152148, member: 389"] I understand what the coach/author is getting at, those who put in above average amounts of time training and practicing end up being more successful at that sport. Makes sense. However, we are talking youth athletics here. I am not trying to raise a football, basketball, soccer, or chess player. I am trying to raise a well rounded good person, not an athlete that I need to relive my own past through. When I lived in Grand Forks I saw people pushing their kids to excel at hockey so they could get a scholarship to UND and eventually end up in the NHL. Fugging seriously? The rest of the population had a name for such rabid parents, we called them "puck" heads. I find most ultra successful athletes to be one dimensional in their personality. No, I'm not necessarily talking about someone who simply wins a ND state championship in whatever sport, while that may indeed be you, accomplishments themselves are not required to be a puck head. [/QUOTE]

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