Dr. Kelly Starrett
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Podcast Appearances
Just has some tools.
She's like, oh, this is how I care for her.
And then I have a child who's 5'11", is going to play a goalie at Berkeley next year, and she is a monster, right?
So we have one kid who we graduated and retired.
We have one kid who we're trying to prep up, and the approach is the same, right?
And what we have to ask as parents is, what can we control?
So I'll give you an example.
The sleep thing, I can't... If you want to reduce injury risk, sleep.
You want to grow and have that kid be better, athlete, sleep.
And what you're really going to see is, wow, we have to have a lot of conversations at our house around tech and bedtime.
And that's going to be a big one.
Well, what you'll see is now we start to say, okay, eight hours is going to be our minimum sleep time.
So that means we all agree that we're going to sleep, go from eight or we're going to go to bed at 11 because we're night owls too.
And we're going to sleep till seven, right?
In this situation, then we can at least start to say, here is our minimum on that.
And when we can steal a half hour here or steal a half hour there, we will.
And you're really bringing up
The problems with this perfect secret school youth athletic program.
I'm like, it falls apart with when do we eat together as a family?
When do I feed my kid a snack?