Support Your Child in Sports: Investment In Your Kids Journey (Not Only Financial)

You are fully on board to support your kid especially because they want to go pro in their chosen sport, ie: surfing, mountain biking, rock climbing, motocross, snowboarding, etc…

That’s great, so are you ready to make the investment it takes for them to get to that next level for them to have the opportunity of going pro.

It’s one thing to say you support them, but it’s a whole other thing to commit and invest.

I’m NOT talking about money, 

I AM talking about your time, your emotional support, your decision making

Interestingly enough, this is what is the most rewarding part of your child’s and your journey with them

Because the athletic journey is so much more than just becoming an athlete, it’s about confidence, it’s about discipline, skill, commitment

When you make the decision to ‘invest’ in your kid, you lead by example. 

They watch us, the parents, to be their role models. Sure we’ll mess up once in a while - that’s normal and to be expected - but how we react and treat situations will sculpt their own way of doing things

In this episode, I talk about the investment we commit and the follow through. 

Are you ready to take that step?

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About This Podcast

It takes a village to raise a pro athlete.

For the first time ever this channel takes you behind the athlete’s ‘unspoken’ road and talks to the people that normally get very little mention, but are the ones who are responsible for the underlying success of an athlete.

Marina pulls back the curtain and dives deep into chats with the UNSUNG Heroes – parents, the coaches, the sponsors, the nutritionists and the mindset specialist – revealing the realities of what it takes to support a  child in reaching their ultimate potential in becoming a pro athlete.

This is YOUR village.  

A home for Uncensored Advice for you– the Unsung Heroes of part of the ‘unspoken’ journey behind the athletes!

What to expect when you listen:

Real, Raw Truth

Laughter

The Struggles & Successes

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Marina Kuperman Villatoro, a mama who is on a mission to help her sons reach their athletic (rock climbing) goals and dreams. 

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Transcript

Welcome to RAISING extreme athletes uncensored this is your reality. Check in home for uncensored, trusted advice and stories from the Trail Blazers who came before us because it takes a strategic village to raise an extreme pro athlete. This is your village today. We're going to be talking about investment in your child. It's not what you think. Are you guys ready to really understand what I'm talking about when I mean investment? Stick around, because this could be a game changer. I’m Marina, your host, mother of two aspiring rock climbers and a wife to an extreme athlete. 

Let's dive in. Ok. So what does it mean to invest in your kids? And I'm not talking about financially only because that usually is the first thing that people go to when they hear the word investment. It's a lot more than that. So here's the thing. You are on board for your kid to become the athlete that they want to be, right? You're all into it. Yeah, great. So are you actually ready to make the investment that you need to put in for them to actually become an athlete? That they want to and that takes everything into a different perspective why? Because I'm not talking about the money, OK? That's a whole other thing. 

Yes, obviously that is financial absolutely. We know that I've pretty much for anything you need to and I have a ton of episodes talking about the financial investment in your kid as well. This is a little bit different. I'm talking about your time, your emotional support and your decision making. Please go and listen to decision making or decision makers episodes because that. Is so important. Like the understanding of the decision making process is important and that is the investment that I am talking about. Look, interestingly enough, people know that this is super rewarding for your kids' journey and all of that. And I get it because you know, we hear the kids are interested in something and have some passion and something and we're all for it, but the investment that it takes on our part is literally what can make or break. 

Your kids career, your kids journey, your kids everything. To be quite honest with you, right? So when you finally decide to make that investment right, that commitment in to your child, what's really interesting is that it's a lot more than just saying, hey, let's go for your athletic, you know, career because it becomes this entire journey and it's actually incredibly rewarding for both parties, for you and your child. First of all, it's a journey of, yes, actually, the sport, right. The sport itself could take you to incredible. Places, but also learning how to build that confidence, learning the discipline, learning the commitment. 

And it's funny enough, it's not only on the kids' part, it's also on the parents' part or whoever is taking on that commitment, that investment in them, right? It's watching them because it's watching them flourish, right. They also watch us to see because we are their first role models, right. You don't realize that, but when you decide to make that commitment, that investment. And you don't stick with it. You in their eyes, they're watching you know, there's always a saying like everything we do, they see, they watch, even though you might not think that they are. 

But we are their role models, right? We are showing them how we are investing in them, in ourselves. And a lot of times you won't have the right answers and it's OK and a lot of times people stop and don't want to commit to that investment of their time, of their support. Of their emotion, because they feel like they're not gonna have it. The right answers? Of course not. You're not gonna have the right answers. Nobody expects you to have those answers. And that's OK, right? Because the commitment is simple. 

Knowing that you were there for them to learn the right answers, or maybe even to a lot of times because you're all learning. But if you could admit to them, you know what I mean. It's the same as you. This is all new to me. Let's learn this together, right? Let's see where this could take us. A lot of times you will be making wrong decisions. You might not have the right answer. And that's OK, because discovering that together, discussing that with your kid, that's what's going to make that difference, that's what's going to make them stronger? Nobody has everything, right? It's not even a possibility, right? And another really important thing when you decide to make that investment. 

How are you going to look at it? Is that going to be a sacrifice on your time? Because they're gonna understand eventually that you're sacrificing yourself for them? That's not about that investment. It's about working with them. It might be a compromise, but it's certainly not a sacrifice. It's not that back that burden. Because at the end of the day, if you're going to go in, go into that investment, into that commitment in that way, it's going to backfire. 

It's going to backfire in ways. First of all, it could completely tarnish your relationship. Secondly, they could quit. They could end up hating the sport. There could be many consequences when you go from into it the wrong way. So you need to make that decision. You need to see what kind of investment you are prepared to do, and sometimes you're just not prepared to do it, and that's OK as well. 

But admitting it, owning up to it, is what's going to make all the difference. This is your time to see what kind of investment you can make in your child's sport, in your child. General, are you willing to do it, and if so, how? I would love to hear how you guys have invested yourselves into your child's sport, into that relationship. I would love to know more about that. And you could also talk to me. 

I'm happy to talk because just bouncing ideas off of somebody else can make all the difference, and I don't have people to do that with that much. That's why I even started this entire podcast, this entire series, so that we can have that person to talk with, right? Because it takes a strategic village. I am Marina, the host of raising extreme athletes. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a review and share it with your friends. And remember, I'm here for you guys.