Have you ever heard a coach or parent tell an athlete that they need to be ‘tougher’? Have you ever told your child that he or she must ‘toughen up’? If you have, then you didn’t hear what you thought you heard and /or say what you thought you said. What you thought you heard […]
Obviously, no parent wants to raise a child who is a loser. So, how could there be any downside to raising a child who is a winner? Well, you can always find a way for a child to win if winning is the only goal, but sometimes winning doesn’t do a child any good. For […]
The concept of a feedback loop is something I like to use in almost everything I do. It’s particularly useful to drive motivation when coaching someone through the process of pursuing a goal. As a parent, I highly recommend trying to incorporate feedback loops into your parenting style. As the name implies, the feedback loop […]