The best thing my husband and I do for our children is encourage them to participate in team sports. We have seen them grow in countless ways because they are team players. Their confidence, their drive, their determination, their ability to support others has all come in part from being a team player. They are active healthy kids who genuinely have fun win or lose and they will take from sports as much, perhaps even more, then they put into it. The friendships and the joy they get from playing on a team is definitely worth every moment of effort.