As parents, we all love our children. When they engage in sport, we smile and our hearts fill with warmth. Through sports, children and developing adolescents are able to gain important foundational skills they can use for a lifetime – leadership, commitment, problem-solving, good sportsmanship, self-control and character. I have been so blessed to be able to coach my five beautiful children and share in all of their youth sports experiences. Did you win? is never part of the conversation. Did you do your best? is always the lead-off and focus. Our belief in youth sports and in life is “If you work hard enough, winning and success will take care of themselves!”