Let them pick a winning team growing up. Don't let them fall into this toilet bowl of hope.
exactly.... be helicopter parents as long as you can....they expect it from you, you have an intense desire to be a cool parent (in the eyes of others) and live vicariously through their amazing athletic exploits like 8-yr old soccer games
Be sure to pay for their cell phone bills, insurance, car, gas, repairs, rents---well into their 20's. It's what helicoptering is all about.
oh wait....all this stuff is commonplace. nevermind. Just don't send them to Iowa City. Send them to that drunk socialist republic called /iowa City