The Competitive Spirit (ePub)

'I wrote this book for all the new parents who need help raising their kids' When you become a parent, nobody hands you an instruction guide on how to be a good parent. You learn what you know from watching your parents, and that is not always a good thing, such was the case for me growing up. I had a wonderful mother, who was a great example of kindness, faith, and love. However, she could only form so much of my path on how to be a good father. I was a young boy that only had my father's examples to watch and learn from, which were not entirely the father that I wanted to be. Fortunately for me, I had my sports, and I had many great examples in coaches that would ultimately help to develop and form my future skills as a parent. My high school sweethearts' father who was also a high school baseball coach and a huge influence on how I wanted to raise my kids. Parenting is hard enough even when you have a great partner to help you raise your kids. Unfortunately for me, twice divorced with two separate sets of kids from each mother, I ultimately needed to figure out how to raise all six of my kids as a single dad. I wrote this book to help parents that may be in a similar situation of trying to figure it all out. Either with a great parent partner, or as a single parent, this book will help. My strategy and success in raising all six of my kids was to put them in competitive sports at a young age. Let's face it, we all want to raise 'winning' kids, whether that be on the field, court or just to simply win at life. It's a constant struggle even more so today with all the uncertainty going on in the world. We need to help provide our kids with a solid foundation of security and belief in themselves that they can succeed! In this book I will focus on some critical concepts to help you succeed raising confident and successful kids. •Out-of-the-box ideas, learning new parenting techniques to give your kids the competitive edge. •Instilling the Three Pillars to succ