Sports Parent Highlights

 

 

 

We  sports parents are always on the lookout for good resources to learn more about our youth athletes sport and how to be the best sports parent we can be. There is so much to take in and often times we can simply wonder if we are doing it right?  Is my youth athlete getting all she needs to be a success in her own right? Below are a few except from some great parent resources to help us be the best sports parent we can be.  

Brooke de Lench, MomsTeam Founder and Editor-in-Chief wrote this great overview on  parents starting their child on the journey of sports participation. 

“What you need to take along in your journey are the sports parenting basics, the information that every parent should know about: things like child development, how to set realistic expectations for your child, how parenting a male athlete is different from parenting a female athlete, how to keep sports fun so as to minimize the risk that your child will burn out and quit sports, what to do if your child is an early or a late bloomer.”

Read The Entire Article Here

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Young Bodies Under Pressure by Mark Hyman. Mark has a blog devoted to Youth Sports.Check it Out!

“It’s not only the young Olympians. It’s the millions of kid athletes starting earlier and training harder, hoping to be transformed into a sports champion who can muscle her way onto the local elite team or hook an athletic scholarship to college. Some young stars love their sports so much that their moms and dads can hardly hold them back. Others would be happier playing video games or hanging with friends at the mall, but their parents are pushing hard to advance their sports prospects. Some have a real chance to become standouts. Others have lots more ambition than talent”.

Read The Enitre Article Here

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Jon Reischel editor of  Intergrity In Youth Sports wrote a post recently regarding the bad behavior of some youth sport parents including YouTube Videos. These videos highlight sports rage and it’s  harmful even  deadly effects.

 “As parents and coaches, we should be sufficiently motivated by good sportsmanship, decency and common sense to keep ourselves from acting like idiots when our kids play sports. Failing that, the simple knowledge that video cameras and YouTube are ever present should be enough reason to keep our hands to ourselves and our mouths shut”.   

Read the Entire Article Here

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