Why one screen isn't enough
A screen is a photograph.
A season is a film.
Her assessment caught a real pattern — the kind that quietly turns into a lost season if nobody watches it. But bodies change week to week. Growth, exams, a heavy tournament block, four nights of bad sleep — every one of those moves the picture.
Without something watching, the next time anyone looks closely is usually after something has already gone wrong.
"I never knew whether to tell her to push through it or sit it out. I was guessing — and I was the one she was asking."
— a parent, before"Now I can see it. I don't argue with her about tired anymore — we both look at the same thing."
— the same parent, three months in