Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

I'm your host, Heather McFadion, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

In this episode number 540, I'm welcoming to the show,

Ed, Uzynski, and Brian Smith. It's a game. Again, I just feel like we need to like take smelling salts over this. It's we've turned it into something bigger and it has to do with our identity. We even even talked about

that. It's so enmeshed in our identity and how we think about ourselves as parents and how we

expect our kids to think about themselves, you know, kind of on the pecking order is based on

their performance. And it's like that is demonic at its core.

It really is.

It's anti-gospal.

They are wanting to play the game.

They don't necessarily have to commit to wanting to get better at it.

They just want to play.

Ed and Brian are joining me today.

They are the authors of Away game, a Christian parents guide to navigating youth sports.

And both of these guys are very familiar with youth sports and even collegiate sports.

And they've worked with students for many years.

Brian is the author of several books on faith in sports,

and he runs the website, The Christian Athlete.com, and he's pursuing a master's in theology

and sports studies. Ed has his PhD and has done Bible teaching content strategy and leadership

development in sports ministry for over 30 years. And today we are having an honest conversation

of our role as parents in this process because we know there are so many great things that come

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