{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhold-my-baby.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fep-10-oQGhv8yg","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Ep 10: Water Polo Parenting Fail, Scholarship Dreams & FedEx Rage","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/b3f405d2-e127-41e0-b9de-0d1d7a101e12/c2cd8964-fb9e-4c4d-88d4-891a97af5fdf/hold-20my-20baby.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Welcome back to **Hold My Baby**, the parenting podcast where we love our kids… and also want them to be *slightly impressive* someday. Not even famous. Just… employable. Athletic. Motivated. Alive.\n\nIn this episode, Erik signs his 13-year-old up for **water polo** (because scholarships don’t grow on trees), only for it to become his son’s **first and last class**. We get into the eternal parenting battle:\nDo you push your kid to stick with something… or do you let them quit immediately and raise a future adult who “doesn’t like hard things”?\n\nThen we spiral into:\n\n* Parenting teamwork (and when your spouse sabotages your discipline plan)\n* How kids have zero spark now (sorry, but it’s true)\n* Why hobbies like golf and running are basically rich-people time travel\n* Home Depot vs IKEA parenting budgets\n* FedEx customer service rage and “Is there anything else I can help you with?”\n\nBe a friend. Tell a friend. And please… stop letting kids quit after ONE practice."}