As a soccer dad, one of the most important things I learned was to manage my expectations of how my daughter was doing on the field and to avoid comparing her progress to that of her teammates. To be honest it was extremely challenging as we all want our kids to do well. The purpose of this post is to help you help your child get the most out of their martial experience and to help you manage your expectations. Look, when it comes to our kids we are biased and more importantly, our children want to please us, and if they sense that we think that they aren’t learning fast enough we have indirectly put more pressure on them.