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When parents invest heavily in athletic dreams beyond their child's realistic potential

My gymnast is fifteen and her parents drive three hours each way for practice and they ask me every week if she has what it takes to get a scholarship.

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You have to tell hopeful parents a hard truth they don't want to hear.

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