🎙️ Season 1 — Episode 10

Youth Football Mistakes Parents Make

Most parents don’t intend to hurt their child’s confidence — but youth sports can bring out habits that quietly create pressure, fear, and burnout. In this episode of Lead From The Line, Coach Mak breaks down the most common mistakes parents make in youth football and how to correct them before they damage trust or enjoyment.

This episode is honest, reflective, and practical, helping dads and moms recognize sideline behaviors, car-ride conversations, and expectations that may be doing more harm than good.

In this episode:

• Common youth football parenting mistakes

• Why coaching from the stands creates confusion

• How car-ride lectures damage confidence

• Ways to support kids without pressure or comparison\

  
  

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We talk a lot about culture in youth sports — team culture, locker room culture, winning culture. But long before your child ever steps into a huddle or hears a coach’s voice, their understanding of culture is already being shaped at home.

In this episode of Lead From The Line, Coach Mak challenges parents and coaches to look beyond the field and recognize a powerful truth: the culture your child carries into every team, classroom, and relationship is built in your living room, at your dinner table, and during everyday conversations when you don’t even realize they’re listening.

Through real stories and honest reflection, this episode explores how tone, language, and reactions at home quietly become the blueprint for how kids handle accountability, respect authority, respond to pressure, and treat teammates. Coach Mak breaks down how complaining, blaming, and negativity travel just as easily as discipline, gratitude, and ownership — and why your home environment matters more than any pregame speech.

In this episode, Coach Mak covers:

• Why your home is your child’s first locker room

• How everyday conversations shape your child’s mindset and behavior

• The impact of how you talk about coaches, teammates, and refs

• Why accountability starts long before game day

• Practical ways to build a strong, respectful home culture

• How parents influence team culture without ever stepping on the field

Culture isn’t built with slogans or speeches.
It’s built with tone, habits, and consistency.

If you want your child to show up as a disciplined, respectful, team-first leader — not just in sports but in life — this episode will challenge you to start where it matters most.

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Season 1 — Episode 8 Encouraging Confidence Without Creating Ego

Every parent wants their child to believe in themselves. But there’s a fine line between building confidence and unintentionally creating ego — and many of us cross it without even realizing it.

In this episode of Lead From The Line, Coach Mak breaks down how to help kids develop real confidence — the kind that’s steady, humble, and resilient — without tying their identity to being the best, the star, or the center of attention.

This conversation goes deeper than hype or praise. It explores how well-intentioned words like “you’re the best” or “nobody can stop you” can quietly create pressure, entitlement, or fear of losing status. Through real stories from the field and honest reflection, Coach Mak shows how confidence rooted in effort, character, and belonging lasts far longer than confidence built on comparison or applause.

• The key differences between confidence and ego

• How praise can either build security or create pressure

• Why identity should never be tied to performance or stats

• How to raise kids who lead without needing attention

• Practical ways to encourage belief while teaching humility

• What confident, grounded leadership actually looks like in young athletes

True confidence doesn’t need to be loud.
It doesn’t need to stand over others to feel strong.

It knows who it is — and it shows up with humility, effort, and respect.

If you want to raise a confident child who lifts others up, listens to coaching, and knows their value beyond the scoreboard, this episode will help you lead the right way.

Follow and subscribe to Lead From The Line for weekly episodes where fatherhood meets football, leadership starts at home, and character matters more than clout.