You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world. As always, we are joined by

psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgis. Hey, everyone, and welcome back. My name is Ashley Parrish. I am

joined by my co-host Jessica Pfeiffer. Hey there. And Dr. Ken Willgis.

Hey, everybody. On today's episode, we're going to be discussing teens and sports and extracurricular

activities. Jessica, you and I have talked about this several times. Yes. And it's something

that we continue to talk about. We have different aspects to this because my children

are so much younger. So there's not really an opportunity for them to be involved in things,

whereas your kiddos are all older. And so there are several opportunities and activities for

them to be a part of. Yes. And you know, honestly, I think there's different ends of the

spectrum or continuum here with the amount that parents can give, the amount that parents can

spend toward extracurricular activities, the amount of time that they have, whether they work

full-time jobs outside of the home or whether they're more available to be there for driving

and things like that after

school. So families, each family is different. But honestly, at this point with my kids, ages and

their activities, I am totally exhausted. I'm in the car all evening and much of the weekend.

I want my kids to have these opportunities, but it comes at a great cost.

You know, I know that sometimes my sanity suffers, sometimes my marriage suffers and my

friendships and the hobbies and things that I'd like to pursue suffer.

And so I know that I'm lacking boundaries here because I can't figure out exactly what the

right place is for our family, and it changes each season, depending on what

sports and activities they're in. But I also fear, I have this fear of my kids having too much

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