Yesterday I shared three facts about yelling at kids. These facts should motivate any parent or coach to stop using yelling as a tool for behavior change. Kids dislike people who yell all the time. Yelling at kids lowers their self-esteem and drives higher rates of depression. Yelling does not improve behavior and can instead […]
I did an unscientific survey this weekend among a handful of young athletes 12 and under. I asked them two fairly straight forward questions. Surprisingly, almost every kid I talked with said they had a coach they didn’t like at one time or another. In addition, they all had the same reason for not liking […]
There are three types of losers. Those people who accept losing. The people who learn from losing. Then of course you have your sore losers. When you win all the time, it’s easy to fall victim to the sore loser mentality. If you lose all the time, it’s easy to let being a loser become […]