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Staying calm and composed will keep young athletes calm and composed.
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Well-publicized professional sports stars’ injuries draw attention to dangerous influences on young athletes.
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Simone Biles considers the Tokyo 2020 Olympics balance beam bronze medal her most meaningful win, above all the golds she has accumulated as the most-decorated Olympian gymnast in history. Biles, who took the decision to not participate for most of the tournament citing mental health reasons—the dreaded
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With so many young athletes dying by suicide recently, IMG Academy talks about how they treat their athlete's physical and mental well-being and has a message for parents of young athletes.
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Sometimes an obstacle standing in the way of a kid's effective training is the misinformation or beliefs held by the parents.
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My 16-year-old son referees for our town sports programs. Everyone who plays (and works) at these games is from our community. There are no tryouts, and everyone who signs up can play. The league is focused not on high-level competition but on kids playing together. A few weeks ago, my son was officiating basketball playoff games for girls in grades 3-6. During overtime in one particularly close game, my son called a foul on a player. Her father, who had been grumbling about calls
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It's difficult to measure how screen-time affects academic performance among youth, but research provides some answers.
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It’s acceptable – endearing, even – for Southerners to act a bit boorish when cheering on our college football teams at Bryant-Denny or Jordan–Hare. But it’s deplorable – shameful, even – when parents act like that at an elementary school.
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Dr. Tommy John outlines four important questions shockingly few sports parents ever consider.
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Spending your weekends on the field with your kids? Here’s are some tips to stay comfortable and stay motivated to cheer them on.
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KIMBERLY (WLUK) -- After parents exploded into a brawl last week during a grade school wrestling match in Kimberly, psychologists are saying its that kind of sideline behavior that could cause a kid to quit sports. Lashing out with rage, sarcasm and fighting has no place on the sidelines. So why does it happen so often? "Some parents think that they have to live their lives through their kids," said Dr. Frank Cummings, a sports psychologist at Psychology Associates of the Fox Cities.
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Learning to deal with mistakes is one of the most beneficial aspects of sports psychology, and will benefit your children throughout their lives. The reasoning is simple: Perfectionism and fear of failure limit kids' ability to improve their performance.
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“My daughter and I had to miss her grandfather’s funeral when she was 12 for a cheerleading competition.” I had to read that twice to be sure what I was reading. This was an actual comment we received recently on Facebook. We receive a lot of heartbreaking stories from readers, but this one sentence stopped
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A Personal Perspective: Sports team auditions are as pleasant as taxes.
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Psychological safety has become a mainstream phrase and concept, but how does a coach actually create it? Here's one simple question you can ask each of your players to help build psychologica
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Even pro athletes have bad days. The trick is knowing how to use them to become a better athlete. How parents can help.
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Top 4 Keys For a Successful Mindset in Youth Soccer.
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Everyone in the sport community is feeling the impact of COVID-19. AASP wants you to remember we are all in this together, and has compiled a list of resources and tips to help keep you updated, cope…
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We’ve all seen that crazy parent, or that obsessive coach, pacing the sideline at a youth sporting event, yelling, shaking their finger after the game. We
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Parentology spoke to sports marketing directors, high school coaches, and parents to lend some insight into the decline in youth sports participation.
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At age 15, Coco Gauff is already strong in all the key areas, where some previous phenoms were lacking, to make it her world for the taking.
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MaxPreps News - Lacking energy? Staying up late playing Fortnite may not be ideal.
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Much as kids make mistakes playing sports, parents also make errors watching them. And while that's okay, it's important to realize you're a poor sports parent and correct the behavior. Dr. Rob Bell shares three ways to do that, including not trying to live vicariously through your child's athletic pursuits.
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Parents, we may want to talk so bad that it is like acid in our mouth; they need to know what we think. We have great points, and they need to know how they can improve.
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