is youth sports right for your child?

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In today’s episode we talked about how to encourage effort over outcome, balancing competition with fun and enjoyment, when to push, when to step back, managing expectations if your child plays for fun vs. playing to compete, preventing burnout at a young age and much more!! Let us know your thoughts :) Love you guys! Shawn & Andrew ▶ Get EASTFAM for 15% off at https://www.kachava.com ▶ Use our code EASTFAM for up to 40% off at https://www.CozyEarth.com Beam Kids is now available online at https://www.shopbeam.com/COUPLETHINGS Take advantage of our exclusive discount of up to 40% off using code COUPLETHINGS Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletter Follow our podcast Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/shawnandandrewpods/ Follow My Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Shop My LTK Page ▶ https://www.shopltk.com/explore/shawnjohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow Andrew’s Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Andrew’s Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewdeast?lang=en (00:00) number one cheerleaders of the east crew! (01:34) 4-year-old flag football story to kick us off (05:30) why we want to talk about youth sports (08:08) youth sports today = no fun? (15:38) we experienced the broken system (18:20) the stats that scream volumes (24:50) setting the perspective in participation numbers declining (27:50) the best thing you can do as a parent (32:20) sport impacting other areas of our lives (34:42) but what if i want them to go pro? (36:00) data on parental pressure (40:02) ugly parent syndrome (42:33) quitting and navigating worth (45:35) you cannot want it more than your child (47:16) how can we reshape youth sports? (52:50) closing thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody?
0:01.2	Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.3	With Sean and Andrew.
0:03.5	I feel like I am losing my voice because we spent all weekend screaming as the number one
0:10.0	cheerleaders of the East crew playing t-ball, softball, flag football, games and practices.
0:18.4	It was an epic weekend, to be honest.
0:20.7	It was the first weekend that we've had full of sports like that.
0:24.4	Yes.
0:25.0	And so today we wanted to talk about youth sports.
0:27.9	Yes.
0:28.3	And this is coming from an Olympic gold medalist.
0:30.9	And an NFL player.
0:32.3	And so maybe we have a unique perspective on this that you think we do.
0:37.1	We do.
0:39.8	I've actually changed my perspective before having kids then having kids and then now that the kids are old enough to play sports
0:45.3	i've changed my perspective three times i think i've been pretty consistent i'm excited to like
0:50.6	get into this but i want to go ahead i will say too adding into that I coached for about
0:57.2	eight years so I got to see firsthand so many different things we also want to make this a conversation
1:05.3	because our kids are five four and one yes so we don't everything. And some of you may have kids older than ours,
1:13.0	and you may have a different perspective.
1:14.8	So please share that.
1:16.1	You can comment or DM us.
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