Parenting Unfiltered: When To Let Your Teens Quit Sports
Cat & Nat Unfiltered
Cat & Nat
5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Teen sports are equal parts commitment and carpooling. In this episode, we’re talking about that tricky moment in time when your kid wants to quit sports. Do you let them? Do you push through? Some parents have rules like “one school sport per semester,” but we’re not in the market for forcing our kids to do things they’re miserable doing—because then guess what? It becomes our problem. When to back off, when to encourage, and when to just let them call it quits?
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| 0:00.0 | notoriously in grade 11 and 12 kids need to quit their sport because academics becomes too much. |
| 0:06.2 | That's a problem. |
| 0:07.4 | If kids are saying I can't manage doing what I'm told to do my whole life and something I love |
| 0:13.0 | because school is too much. |
| 0:15.3 | What are we doing to them? |
| 0:17.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.5 | Because what's life? |
| 0:18.4 | And I've heard this for years now. |
| 0:20.6 | Drop it like a hat. Drop like a tap. Drop like a tap. Natalie, Because what's life? And I've heard this for years now. Drop it like a hot. |
| 0:21.3 | Drop it like a hot. |
| 0:23.3 | Natalie, what do I do? |
| 0:25.0 | Ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:27.1 | It opens giddy, giddy. |
| 0:29.3 | It's a Monday. |
| 0:30.6 | We were just actually having a very interesting conversation. |
| 0:34.5 | Which one? |
| 0:35.3 | One where we're upstairs talking about parenting? |
| 0:37.2 | I forgot that one already |
| 0:38.4 | no I was saying about kids in extracurricular oh just when when is the time to when when are they |
| 0:50.2 | not happy when do you push it when do you off? When do you push them through it? |
| 0:55.3 | When is the time to let them make the decision that, yes, you can quit now? |
| 1:00.2 | Because I know a lot of parents are like, you are not allowed to do this until you need |
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