Today as I was reading Cal Ripken’s book on parenting young athletes titled The Ripken Way I came across a startling statistic. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control, on any typical day kids today are six times more likely to play a video game than to […]
A few days ago I shared my perspective on how to develop mental toughness. My perspective comes from the concepts of a mental toughness framework experts call the 4Cs model. Challenge: You must proactively seek out challenges and look for opportunities that will require you to overcome adversity. Commitment: You must proactively put yourself is situations were […]
Popular opinion is that encouraging kids is good, pushing them is bad. I tend to agree that this is a good rule of thumb. However, how can a parent know when they have crossed the line from encouraging to pushing? Looking at the basic dictionary definition of the two words gives us a fairly good […]