Meagan Frank

Opinion | I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.

“To tackle the problems of technology we have to return to our emotional lives…not leap to doing or changing or fixing. This is the only viable pathway… to remain in touch with our humanness…to preserve love, empathy, emotional & spiritual richness.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Thank you to all sports parents who show up. In the rain. When it’s cold. Regardless of their athlete’s playing time. Win or lose. Home or away.
Unconditional love looks a lot like that.

#fortheteam #love #parenting

Delivered a few For the Team copies to be circulated in Aspen. Lofty goals for the content within.

The Art of Making the Right Choices in Youth Sports How to avoid choice paralysis as a youth sports parent.

How to avoid the paradox of choice as a youth sports parent.

So grateful for an evening of catch-up and a morning of youth-sports-story swapping. These 2 had an enormous impact on the research & lived experience for the book & I’m so glad to have had time w/ stillwater rotary to share the start of what we’re all sure will be a WORLD TOUR of #FortheTeam.😂

Our speaker line up for the Women Coaches Symposium is so good. Register now and follow the @tuckercenter.bsky.social for updates.

Spontaneous conga lines during a pick-up soccer night are sorta awesome. Offering space for freedom of thought and freedom of movement is a gift we should give our kids as often as possible.

#letthemplay #youthsports

Book talk at Menomonie Public Library tomorrow, Feb 24th at 6. See you there!
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So great to see you! Thank you for all the support and encouragement through the years❤️📘. (Obviously a completely candid photo😉)

Connection. Play. Nature.
All that is good in one place. I love the joy we can offer at www.woodwindpark.com

Set Pride Aside, Your Kid Needs a Hug Failures demand more unconditional love than successes do. Abandon pride and choose love.

Failures demand more unconditional love than successes do. Abandon pride and choose love.

Legislation Cannot Love, Only People Can Do That The timing of my book being published means the dismissal of my perspective could be swift and without discussion. I pray daily that discourse is still possible.

The timing of my book being published means the dismissal of my perspective could be swift and without discussion. I pray daily that discourse is still possible.

In honor of tomorrow’s launch of For the Team, I’ve created a set of playing cards. Some cards have questions, some have photos and some reference specific experiences, not all of which could be included in the book. Hubby and I will draw at random to discuss 11-1.

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45 years… as a player, as a coach, as a parent, and as the spouse of a coach. That’s a long sports story.
Competition and a way to work through ugly, hard emotions drew me in initially.
Connection and a way to provide positive expression and relationship has kept me there.
What’s your sports story?

I whisper in a yelling world.

In order for people to hear, “You are loved. You matter. You are worthy. You’re enough.” I need to be in the same room with them.

May I be near someone who needs to hear this today. ❤️

For the Team: A Courageous Parenting Choice A relationship-centered focus requires courageous parenting choices in today's youth sports climate.

A relationship-centered focus requires courageous parenting choices in today's youth sports climate.

There’s open ⚽️ today‼️
For over a decade, I’ve found ways to get kids into gyms during winter to play. Rooted in the purity of recess, & offered free for those who can’t pay, it fills me completely to see high schoolers running games & energetic children running & laughing.
Prioritize play!

David Epstein (@davidepstein.bsky.social) I'm new here! Science writer. Author of Range and The Sports Gene. Formerly ProPublica, Sports Illustrated; Range Widely at davidepstein.substack.com

Yes! Please choose sampling over specialization. The expanse of life experiences demands it.

“The professed necessity of hyperspecialization forms the core of a vast, successful, and sometimes well-meaning marketing machine, in sports and beyond.” @davidepstein.bsky.social

Parents, your children may very well become next-level athletes, but focusing too much energy there means you miss everything happening on this level.

Be supportive. Be curious. And be present at each level you get to journey with them.

Privatization of youth sports.

Individualization of team member choices.

Teams, communities, & the larger whole matters less than our personal desires.

Choosing community above self strengthens the community & the community strengthens its members.

Choosing self above community isolates.

The youth sports system requires systemic change. Our family’s system needed change too.
My personal overhaul was so I could show up for our sporting kids the way they deserved.
I share my work, discoveries and victories to change our family’s system. Control the controllable!

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Way too often, it’s true.

I spent 12 years untangling myself from the sports story that was partly written by others, written with words I thought I should use, and then ultimately landed in my soon-to-be-released book For the Team. I hope it encourages others to look intently at their own stories too.

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For hockey, lacrosse & football parents too. Any place their equipment must go…give them the tools and instruction to carry it themselves. And especially for hockey folks…teach kids to tie their own skates as early as you can.

Absolutely true! And the decisions of the AD/principal who field all those complaints determine the level of hard things coaches have to do.

They’re setting up camp on the lake. Ice. Fishing. Sub-zero temps. The transformation from summer to winter always blows my mind. (I took this pic 1 mile in to my 2.5-mile walk on water😊)

Can Communities Survive the Fires? A writer from Los Angeles surveys the loss.

We take for granted the importance of community… until we realize what it means to lose it. Great piece.

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Yuen: What’s wrong with youth sports? Let’s start with overinvolved parents. University of St. Thomas men’s basketball coach Johnny Tauer is also a social psychologist. He worries that adults are ruining sports for our kids.

Are parents ruining youth sports? A coach at St. Thomas has an acronym for the problem. WOSPs: well-intentioned, overinvolved sports parents

Humor Beats Competition: Hands Down Humor may be the key to fostering a competitive edge. Seriously!

Humor offers a competitive edge. (plus it makes the entire pursuit of sport so much more fun!)

Breakfast club working on leadership traits and strategies this morning. 2+ months until season starts. Team building takes off-season intention.

#amcoaching #highschoolgirls #breakfastclub #getbetterforeachother