Navigating the Twilight Zone
Sometimes it seems like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. I look around me at things that are happening and how people just act like these things are normal, right, and good. While I feel like I must be losing my mind because these things are anything but normal, right, and good. Y'all. The effects of the "Everyone Gets a Trophy" parenting have caught up with us. I'm serious. Little Jonny now thinks it is GOOD not to come to practice, not to worry giving effort, or attempting to win a game, because he is being taught that you don't have to actually come to practice, your team doesn't matter, whatever you do is fine, and there's no score anyway- just show up if you want to, have fun, and get a trophy. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH. Could anything be more wrong?? Now there's even more to it than that. You see, my husband has been coaching soccer for approximately seventeen years. Yes, seventeen years of voluntary service for the good of his kid
