How To Sports Mom
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Sports moms, this one is for you! We chat about our experience parenting our kids through sports so far: what sports they've tried and what they're doing now. Then we compare notes and share our best tips for different challenges that come up with kid sports, and what we love about watching our kids in sports. And, we talk about how to gear up to be your best sports mom self!
Just for Friends of the Show on Patreon, we share our sports mom personas and have some real talk about where we think kids sports has lost the plot.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Erica. |
| 0:07.0 | In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. |
| 0:13.0 | We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet. |
| 0:19.0 | Today's episode is How to Sports sports mom. We'll be talking |
| 0:23.5 | about our experiences parenting our kids through sports at various ages, the challenges and joys |
| 0:29.6 | around kid sports and how to gear up as a sports mom. In our extended version just for friends of the |
| 0:35.8 | show on Patreon, we'll be talking about our |
| 0:38.3 | sports mom personas and where we think kids sports has gone off the rails. |
| 0:43.5 | And we have another great how-to mom episode called How to Vacation Mom, all about how to make |
| 0:50.2 | the best of family vacations for your family and for you. |
| 0:54.0 | So check that out if you missed it or want a re-listen. |
| 0:57.0 | Search for it in your podcast player and we'll link to that in the show notes. |
| 1:01.0 | Okay, on to sports momming. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's start with a sports history and status for each of our kids. |
| 1:08.0 | What sports have your kids tried at what age and what are they doing |
| 1:12.2 | now, if any sports? Okay. We are a failed soccer family, first of all. Just claim that. |
| 1:20.6 | I never played soccer. Jeremiah did a little bit. My dad is a huge soccer coach, like coaches varsity |
| 1:26.1 | high school teams. |
| 1:27.6 | So all my other siblings played. |
| 1:29.3 | So I was like soccer. |
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