A sports parent's guide
What to say before, during and after the game.
Help them compete with courage — and come home knowing your love was never riding on the scoreboard.
Video training, digital playbook and phone cheat sheet. $27 USD.
Megan & Nick WeisheiplAthletes. Coaches. Parents.
They get in the car.
You know they're disappointed. Or frustrated. Or maybe they just had the best game of their life.
And as a parent, you want to help. So you ask questions. You offer advice. You point out something they could work on. You tell them how proud you are.
But sometimes, even with the very best intentions, our words create pressure we never meant to create.
Because what we say isn't always what our kids hear.
They already know what happened.
That's why we created The Car Ride Home — a short, practical training and playbook that helps sports parents understand what their athlete may actually need from them before, during and after competition.
Not so you can become the perfect sports parent. Not so you never say the wrong thing again. So you can be more intentional about the words, reactions and behaviors that help your athlete build:
The complete resource. $27 USD.
Between the two of us, we've lived sports as athletes, as coaches, and now as parents in the stands.
Mindset coach, speaker, author
Megan has been an athlete, a youth coach and a sports parent. She teaches people how to understand the thoughts and patterns driving their behavior so they can show up with more courage, intention, self-trust and confidence — in sports, in leadership, at work and in life.
Coach, professional manager and author
Nick has spent more than two decades in baseball — as an international professional athlete and as a coach at the NAIA, D1, D2, D3 and professional levels — developing athletes, building team culture and working with players through the highs and lows of competition.
Now we're raising our own athletes.
We've watched thousands of games. We've coached thousands of athletes. We've listened to players talk about the pressure they feel, and watched parents desperately try to help.
And we've made mistakes with our own kids, too — because loving your athlete doesn't automatically mean they'll experience everything you say as love.
Your intention and their experience can be two different things.
You can't control exactly how your child interprets everything you say. But you can be intentional about the environment you build around their sport. That's what we want to help you do.
Small shifts you can use at the very next game — not a personality transplant.
And one of our favorite tools
Before the first word leaves your mouth.
What's actually in front of you — and what's going on in you.
The response that fits what your athlete needs right now.
You can't control how they played, how the coach coached,
the calls that were made, or how your athlete feels about any of it.
But you can control who you are in the car ride home.
$27USD
Watch in one sitting
A short, practical training from both of us that you can watch tonight and start using at your athlete's very next game.
Personal stories, coaching experience, mindset principles, and what we've learned raising our own athletes.
Keep it for the season
Your practical guide for before, during and after competition.
Scripts, conversation starters, mindset shifts and tools you can come back to all season long.
Save it to your phone
Pull it up before the game, in the stands, or in the two minutes before your athlete opens the car door.
Sometimes you just need to know what to say next.
Quite the opposite.
We want our kids to learn:
That's resilience. But resilience doesn't come from never feeling disappointed — it develops when athletes learn they can feel disappointment, process it, and move forward anyway.
Your job isn't to eliminate every uncomfortable emotion. It's to build an environment where they can learn to navigate them.
Inside the playbook, we'll also help you ask yourself a few honest questions.
And maybe most important of all:
Because every kid is different. The goal isn't to parent every athlete the same way.
The goal is to understand yours.
They probably won't remember every score, every statistic or every mistake.
But they may remember looking into the stands after they messed up — and seeing your face.
They may remember the walk to the parking lot after a terrible game. What it felt like sitting beside you in the car. Whether home still felt safe when they failed.
Cheer loudly.
Love watching them compete.
Let them struggle.
Let them learn.
And when the game is over…
Everything you need to be more intentional before, during and after the game — for less than the cost of a tournament lunch.
With love,
Megan & Nick Weisheipl
The complete resource
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