Understand Your Children By Interpreting Behavior with Ends and Means

Interpreting a child’s behavior is a complex undertaking. Over thousands of years philosophers, scientist, and psychologist have all made attempts to define the “why” behind human behavior. What’s more, over the last 8 months I have pored hundreds of hours of my time into studying these theories. At this point, my main conclusion is that […]

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Investing in a Young Athlete’s Talent Isn’t Enough When Not Self-Motivated

For the last 10 days my sole focus was breaking down the basics of what drives a young athlete’s self-motivation. My goal was to show how self-motivation is the product of core values. What’s more, when young athletes don’t have self-motivation, parents who spend significant money on youth sports often want success more than the […]

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Teach Kids to Value Quality With High Standards NOT Perfectionism

Quality is the 10th and final core value that leads children to develop self-motivation. The fundamental understanding kids must have is that anything worth doing is worth doing right. This means going beyond the bare minimum. This bare minimum is a measure of both one’s own personal standards and the standards of others. Therefore, teaching […]

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