Unwittingly, I fell into the trap that snares every hockey parent. I started judging my son relative to the other boys and girls. I took my son to skate. They were reinforced the day he was invited to the land of the sticks and the day he was given his first Game Puck. A father favors his son or daughter.
Youth hockey is no different.
In fact, it is worse. Near the end of the season Nodding Head approached me again. Your son's looking good out there. Get him on a travel team. I didn't need to ask Nodding Head what a travel team was.