Push them hard. Watch them quit.

British sailing coach Dom Barnes offers this reminder for parents with youth sailors: I watched a parent rig their kid's boat while impatiently telling the kid not to touch it and to go and get changed instead. It wasn't about helping or saving time. The message was pretty clear: I've spent a lot of money on this, don't mess it up. Then this tiny human emerges from the changing room in a drysuit two sizes too big and the parent's parting words are not to come off the water unless they've w

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