This year is the first year my seven-year-old son is eligible to play little league football. It is an exciting time as a father to see his son play football after growing up playing little league football myself. It is also an interesting experience to see how parents react as they see their children compete in sports.

In the one camp, you have the “ultra-competitive” parents. These are the parents that buy their children the designer practice clothes, special gloves, and high priced water bottles. These parents...

As we were running our kids between 4H, a parade, feeding the pigs, and picking up football pads, it hit me the sacrifices we make for our children. Much of our lives are spent sacrificing for our children. We earn money to support our children, we stay up late to make sure they are home by curfew, and we spend a lot of time worrying about what kinds of people they will grow up to be. Why do we make all of these sacrifices? It is because we love our children. Sure, there is the occasion (sometimes frequent occasion) where...