In this month’s mailbag, the advice comes from Nick Buonocore, founder of The Reformed Sports Parent, whose mission is to restore healthy balance and perspective in youth sports through education and advocacy. Nick played baseball at North Carolina Wesleyan College. He is the father of six and a reformed sports parent and notes, “Living vicariously through your kid’s sports is pretty much the best way to get them to hate playing and resent the hell out of you simultaneously.”

In this month’s mailbag, the advice comes from Asia Mape, co-founder of I Love to Watch You Play – a website and newsletter for parents seeking balance and sanity in youth sports. Asia played college basketball at Coastal Carolina but became burned out from having played so much basketball growing up. She has been a producer for Fox Sports, ESPN, TNT, NFL Network and NBC Sports. She has three daughters who play some combination of club soccer, basketball, volleyball and water polo, and takes them to about eight practices a week and tournaments or games most weekends. She often questions if there’s a better way.

In this month’s mailbag, the advice comes from Skye Eddy Bruce, founder of the Soccer Parenting Association. She’s a former multisport athlete (track and field, cross country, soccer) and was a youth All-American soccer player before playing Division I college soccer. Soccer Parenting believes a strong and supportive community of level-headed and like-minded parents and coaches will inspire players and best serve player development.