All posts tagged "Parenting"

  • What We Need From Our Children’s Sports Coaches

      I am someone you would call a worry wart. I see my 2-year-old on a chair reaching for a spoon and I think, “If she falls she’ll crack her head.” It’s graphic, I know, but that’s...

    • Posted June 5, 2015
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  • The Perils of Single-Sport Participation

      For the last few days, my email and social media accounts have been lit up by a simple image first shared with me on Twitter by @ohiovarsity. It is amazing because the image portrays something that...

    • Posted May 16, 2015
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  • Why Kids Quit Sports

      “I just can’t take it anymore coach,” a talented but underperforming player named Kate told me a few years back. “I think I am done playing.” My mind went through all the reasons this might be...

    • Posted May 16, 2015
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  • Problems in Youth Sports Today – Big Shocker It’s the Parents & the Adults

      SALT LAKE CITY — It is estimated that over 21.5 million children between the ages of 6 and 17 play team sports. This data, collected by ESPN, also found that 60 percent of boys and 47...

    • Posted April 25, 2015
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  • 3 Big Mistakes Even Good Youth Coaches Make

      It’s not often you hear a coach admit — out loud, with sincerity — “boy, was I dumb.” But that’s what Todd Starowitz, founder of the recently launched ProScoutSports, does in a blog post called “5...

    • Posted April 25, 2015
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  • Mitch Albom: Free-range children vs. close-minded parenting

      Parents all over the country are being arrested for letting their kids walk and play unsupervised. Forget about the “free-range parenting” thing. It was no joke, however, when a 10-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister were...

    • Posted April 22, 2015
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  • Ready To Try Some Free-Range Parenting?

      Here’s an interesting article about “hands off” parenting.  I think there are some good tips in here that we as a coach can use, especially in this day and age where the “old school” type of...

    • Posted April 14, 2015
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