If you are a serious sports parent like me, it’s quite easy to go overboard with coaching after your child loses. Sometimes this is helpful, most times it’s not. However, the fact is, parents who love sports just can’t help themselves. So, here is a word of caution and a tip to make your unwanted […]
It’s common to hear parents and coaches tell young athletes after they lose that there’s no such thing as failure, only learning. Of course, this sounds good, but it isn’t a factual statement. The reality is when you aren’t ready to learn, failure is just failure. When an athlete fails by making the same exact […]
9 out of 10 parents think about youth sports completely wrong until one of two things happens. Either, they have multiple children who play sports, and they learn the truth by the time the younger ones start playing. Or they figure out once they become grandparents and their grandkids start playing youth sports. So, let […]