It is however very difficult for these kids to find that time if they are multi sport athletes. And if they are not from a wealthy family and have to work. My son works or has baseball practice every single day plus lifts every day after school. Sometimes he works 12 hours on saturdays. He has two jobs and sometimes works one in the day and other at night on saturdays. There is homework as well. And every once in a blue moon we like some family time. It's all well and good to say the parents shouldn't be driving the bus but it is unrealistic in many cases. I try to do the research then discuss it with him. Then we send out video etc through his e mail. An extra e mail we created specifically for this purpose. At the request of a college coach he just created a Twitter. He will own that. I will send him video via text or something and he can post it if he chooses on twitter. It's a team effort.
2020dad posted:It is however very difficult for these kids to find that time if they are multi sport athletes. And if they are not from a wealthy family and have to work. My son works or has baseball practice every single day plus lifts every day after school. Sometimes he works 12 hours on saturdays. He has two jobs and sometimes works one in the day and other at night on saturdays. There is homework as well. And every once in a blue moon we like some family time. It's all well and good to say the parents shouldn't be driving the bus but it is unrealistic in many cases. I try to do the research then discuss it with him. Then we send out video etc through his e mail. An extra e mail we created specifically for this purpose. At the request of a college coach he just created a Twitter. He will own that. I will send him video via text or something and he can post it if he chooses on twitter. It's a team effort.
Sounds like your son is developing a lot of the skills he will need for success long term — hard work and prioritization. My 2018 doesn't work as much as yours, but otherwise, he lives much the same life.
It is a team effort early on, and we had the same arrangement as you to start, with me doing research and bringing it to my son. We used his email address to send video, and I admit, we worked together to write a sort of templated email, and then the two of us took turns sending them out.
But in the end, we only visited one of the schools I had researched. Once coaches could talk to my son, he really drove the bus. By that time, also, he was more mature and more comfortable knowing what he wanted, what he had to offer, and how various schools fit into that.