Healthy Sports Parents

How do we hold kids accountable while making sure they know we care about them?

In this episode of Healthy Sports Parents, Jonathan Carone sits down with Amen “Principal Rahh” Rahh, an award-winning principal and founder of Knowlej, to talk about why kids need connection before correction. Drawing from his experience as a principal in Compton, California, Amen explains why understanding what’s happening beneath a child’s behavior can change the way we parent, coach, and lead.

Jonathan and Amen discuss how to balance accountability with connection, why adults need to spend more time catching kids doing things right, and how recognizing progress can build confidence in young people. They also explore the importance of investing in opportunities for kids, giving them a voice in decisions that affect them, and creating communities where every child has a chance to succeed.

Whether you're a parent, coach, or educator, this conversation will challenge you to think about how your reactions, expectations, and relationships shape the kids in your care.

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Kids need time to figure out what they love. But in a youth sports culture that pushes kids toward travel teams, year-round training, and specialization earlier and earlier, it can feel like there’s no time to wait.

Natasha Watley became one of the best softball players in the world, winning an NCAA National Championship at UCLA, an Olympic gold medal, and an Olympic silver medal. But her journey didn’t start with dreams of becoming an Olympian. She played recreational softball until middle school, played only in the spring, and says she didn’t realize how far softball could take her until high school.

In this episode of Healthy Sports Parents, Natasha talks with Jonathan Carone about how her parents gave her the space to fall in love with softball on her own timeline, the difference between guiding a talented kid and pushing them, why the desire to pursue something has to come from the child, and how unconditional love gave her the freedom to fail.

They also talk about the growing cost of youth sports, why recreational opportunities matter for older kids, what sports can teach kids about failure and confidence, and why the entire journey of parenting and development is a slow burn.

For sports parents wondering how much to push, when to step in, or whether their kid is falling behind, this conversation is a reminder that kids need time to fall in love with their sport.

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What happens when helping your kid reach their potential starts hurting your relationship with them?

Craig Young is the father of Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young, but he’s also spent more than 25 years working in mental health and family systems. Even with all that training, Craig admits he got it wrong with Bryce. At times, he became so focused on helping his son reach his potential that he pushed him to the point where Bryce didn’t want to be around him anymore.

In this conversation with Jonathan Carone, Craig shares how that moment changed the way he parented, why our kids need to know their value isn’t tied to their performance, how families can support talented athletes without making sports their entire identity, and why giving kids room to fail can actually help them play with more freedom.

No matter how much potential our kids have, reaching it should never cost us our relationship with them.

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What if the way we’ve been trying to build toughness in young athletes is actually making it harder for them to grow?

Megan Bartlett, Founder of the Center for Healing and Justice Through Sport, joins Jonathan Carone to talk about what kids actually need to handle pressure, take risks, recover from mistakes, and become more resilient. They talk about why feeling safe doesn’t mean lowering standards, how resilience is actually built, why different kids may need different paths to reach the same expectations, and how the emotions of parents and coaches affect the athletes around them.

They also get into what regulation really means, why repair matters when we get it wrong, and why play, laughter, and connection still belong in competitive youth sports.
If we want to raise kids who can handle hard things, maybe the answer isn’t simply making things harder.

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Two-time MLB All-Star Carlos Quentin joins Healthy Sports Parents for a conversation about youth sports parenting, athlete development and why kids don’t need to be great at sports right now.

After nine seasons in Major League Baseball, Carlos is now experiencing youth sports as a parent and coach. He shares how being an elite athlete affected the way he initially approached coaching his own kids, why he learned to give them more space to develop, and why parents shouldn’t be in such a hurry to find out how good their young athlete can be.

Carlos and Jonathan also talk about failure and rejection in sports, handling pressure and expectations, helping young athletes build mental skills, allowing kids to struggle, and how parents can support their child’s development without taking ownership of their sports experience.

Carlos Quentin is a two-time MLB All-Star who played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox and San Diego Padres. He is also the founder of Before The Field, which helps athletes develop the mental skills needed to navigate competition, pressure and adversity.

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