Behind Every Great Student Athlete: What Your Teen Really Needs From You - and How to Help Them Grow Without Hovering, Pushing, or Holding Them Back - Paperback
Behind Every Great Student Athlete: What Your Teen Really Needs From You - and How to Help Them Grow Without Hovering, Pushing, or Holding Them Back - Paperback
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by Dobb Mayo (Author)
✪ SILVER MEDAL - 2026 Global Book Awards (Parenting & Relationships) ✪
You don't need to care less. You need to aim it better.
You drive the miles. You pay the fees. You'd do anything for your kid's shot at this. So why does it sometimes feel like the harder you push, the more they pull away?
Here's the part nobody says out loud: the same love that makes you show up - drive, pay, lie awake at night - is the exact love that, aimed a few degrees off, becomes the thing that gets in your kid's way. Too much help curdles into control. Too much investment lands as pressure. The line between backing your athlete and smothering them is real, thin, and almost impossible to see from the inside.
Behind Every Great Student-Athlete is the book for the parent in the stands - written by one. Dobb Mayo isn't coaching from a mountaintop. He's the dad with the camera up, three daughters deep in club and high school sports, who's been every version of the over-involved parent and lived to write about it. This is his honest, practical guide to backing your athlete without hovering, pushing, or taking over.
This book is for you if:
- Your mood rises and falls with a game you're not even playing.
- You've given the post-game breakdown your kid didn't ask for.
- You're quietly carrying the scholarship math - and the pressure that rides shotgun with it.
- You can't always tell when to step in and when to step back.
- You want your kid to still love the sport long after you've stopped driving them to it.
In nine short chapters - built for busy parents reading in the parking lot between sessions - you'll sort out what your real job is (and isn't), where good intentions turn into micromanaging, how to hand the sport back to the kid it belongs to, and the rare red flags that override every other rule in the book.
"Dobb discusses this in a way that helps all of us reflect, learn, and better support the athletes we care about." - Steve Bowyer, Assistant Athletic Director & Head Varsity Swimming CoachFrom the award-winning author of the Student-Athlete Series.
Book One of the Sideline Parent Playbook.
Because sooner than you think, the sport ends. And what's left isn't the scoreboard - it's whether your kid still wants you in the stands, and in their life. This is the book about building that.
Includes a free companion workbook.
