This post contains affiliate links. Screen time and athletes is a nagging issue that parents have to deal with today. Too much screen time for kids isn’t life-threatening, but the effects of digital media abuse can add up over the years and turn into bad habits that become harder and harder for parents to control….
Is Your Child Winning in His/Her Head?
I suppose you hear it all the time. Sports is a mental game more than a physical one. After watching 3 kids play sports from pre-school through college, I know for a fact that if an athlete cannot win in his or her head, it’s doubtful he or she will win in the game. Parents,…
When You Think Your Child isn’t Trying Hard Enough
For some parents, sitting and watching their child play sports is a practice in self-control. Especially when your child isn’t trying hard enough, at least in your mind she’s not. Your frustrations either comes out in what you yell to your child or in your body language as you sigh loudly, shake your head or throw…
6 Things You Should See From the Sidelines as You Watch Your Child Play
As you sit on the sidelines, what are you watching most? The score? The time-clock, your phone, or your child? As hard as it is, I’d like to suggest that you tear your eyes away from the scoreboard and focus more on what you observe as you watch your child. There some important things that…
3 Life Skills that Playing Sports will Teach Your Child
This post is sponsored by Genius of Play, a one-stop source for play ideas that build real skills. Perhaps you’ve heard over and over about the life skills that playing sports will teach your child. I believe very strongly that it offers a golden opportunity for parents and coaches to help develop tomorrow’s leaders. After being a…
How the Hard Work of Youth Sports is Still Fun
This post is sponsored by Genius of Play, a one-stop source for play ideas that build real skills. There is rarely anything fun about the hard work of youth sports. Although hard work and fun can co-exist in youth sports, let’s not sugar coat the sweat, the sore muscles, and the exhaustion that your kids…
Why Keeping the Fun in Youth Sports is So Important
This post is sponsored by Genius of Play, a one-stop source for play ideas that build real skills. The idea of “hard work’ gets a lot of attention. We teach our kids that if they are not willing to work hard for something, then they will not truly appreciate it. I totally agree with that…
How You Can Help Your Athlete Come Out of a Slump
If you had a magic wand to wave over your kids in youth sports, I’m pretty sure you would be using it to help your athlete come out of a slump. It’s hard for parents to sit by and watch their kids struggle. Performance slumps can be extremely frustrating and difficult to get out of without…
5 Steps to Helping Your Child Avoid a Youth Sports Meltdown
What do you do when your child has a youth sports meltdown? You probably feel helpless as you sit and watch from the sidelines. I know that powerless feeling of sitting in the bleachers, watching my child tank, knowing that there was not a single thing I could do to help. That may be true during the game situation, but there…
5 Habits That will Guarantee Your Child Has an Awesome Youth Sports Season
This post is sponsored by TeamSnap, a company that does its very best to make back-to-school sports as easy as possible by providing the best tools to help teams and parents run their organizations smoothly. How’s your child’s youth sports season looking? Is it already looking grim because of weak team chemistry, a negative coach,…