Tackling Fear of Failure And Perfectionism If you and your sports kids are planning your New Year’s resolutions, we’ve got a good one for you: Try tackling the biggest mental game challenges most sports kids face. As we’ve mentioned before, fear of failure and perfectionism are the top challenges for … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Kids Who Compare Their Skills to Others This holiday season, it’s a great idea to teach sports kids to focus on what they have to be thankful for–their positive experiences, physical assets, and mental game strengths, to name just a few. While they’re doing this, they need to understand that … Read Sport Psychology Tip
What’s One of the Biggest Confidence Killers for Sports Kids? Beliefs they hold to that undermine their confidence. They include: Maybe your young athletes don’t wear polka-dotted underwear. But we bet your sports kids have displayed some, if not all, of these tendencies from time-to-time. If they haven’t, they’re not … Read Sport Psychology Tip
High Expectations Verse High Confidence No matter what sport you play, if you focus too much on outcome expectations, your confidence will take a hit. I call this the confidence-expectation connection. Here’s the connection: When your expectations are super high—and you fail to achieve those expectations—confidence takes a hit. Here’s … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Sports Parents’ Sideline Behavior And It’s Influence on Kids Recently, we told you about a study from Active Network about just how much parents’ behavior affects kids’ sports experience… Active found that kids are more likely to be interested in sports if their parents enjoy participating at the adult level. … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Sports Kids And Parents Who Make Comparisons When sports kids compare themselves to others, it’s a big mental game no-no. When sports parents compare their kids to their peers, it’s an even bigger mental game no-no. But guess what? It’s really hard to resist. Lisa here to make a confession: … Read Sport Psychology Tip