Sports Parents: Help Kids Improve Focus
In our last tip, we shared a video with you on the top distractions young athletes face in sports.
Today, we have a follow up video—again produced by Dr. Cohn:
Four Steps to Helping Young Athletes Improve Focus
This short video describes the critical steps to helping your athletes learn how to refocus when distracted. And that’s our philosophy.
Your athlete will lose focus at times during practice and competition. There is no doubt about it.
If your sports kids are human, which we know they are, they’ll get sidetracked.
But here is the key mental skill:
They need to quickly recognize they are off task and quickly refocus. That’s the difference between success and making mental mistakes.
Dr. Cohn walks you through the steps to help you teach your kids how to get back on track quickly in his new video.
Watch the video below:
Related Articles on Youth Sports:
- How Parents Can Help Young Athletes Improve Focus
- How Athletes Can Stay in the Moment and Improve Focus
- Help Kids Improve Their Focus Before Competition
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Help Your Young Athletes Improve Focus In Sports!
Are your young athletes easily distracted by people shouting on the sidelines? Do they obsess over their mistakes? Do they worry about what people think of them?
These issues will cause their concentration and performance to suffer!The Focused Sports Kid helps kids overcome distractions that can hurt their performance in sports.
The Focused Sports Kid program is actually two programs: one for sports parents/coaches that provides mental game tips especially designed for parents and coaches, and for young athletes, ages 8 to 12, that will walk them through 7 simple lessons in mental focus in sports.