The MOST important time for kids to be focused and confident is just before competition. However, before competition is when kids feel anxious, distracted, worried and tense about outcomes. Feeling this way can undermine athletes confidence and performance. With our pregame mental preparation program, young athletes, parents and coaches learn … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Sports Kids Who Learn From Games Kids need to walk away from games with renewed confidence—or at least with their confidence intact. In the third of our series of podcasts about post-game tips, that’s the idea we want parents and coaches to embrace. Kids are hard on themselves. They tend to … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Help Sports Kids Have Fun In Sports Don’t bring a Nobel-Prize winning professor to teach your young sports kids the physics behind throwing a ball. Instead, focus on games like “Simon Says,” and “Hokey Pokey.” That’s the word from VJ Stanley, a retired college hockey coach and youth sports coach … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Tips For Finding The Best Coaches What makes great coaches who boost kids’ confidence? First and foremost, great coaches instill a love of the game, says Michael Langlois, a longtime coach and author of “A Guide To Effective Communication for Youth Soccer Coaches.” “If nothing else, we should not kill … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How Involved Should Sports Parents Be? Film maker Caytha Jenis is the first to admit she was too involved in her daughter’s sports experience. So were many of the other sports parents she knew. In fact, Jenis, owner of Fox Meadow Films, was so upset by her own over-involvement that … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Help Kids’ Development in Sports You can’t microwave youth sports development. You have to slow-cook it. That’s the word from VJ Stanley, a retired college hockey coach and youth sports coach of 30 years who wants to change sports and bring back healthy fun for children. He’s the founder of … Read Sport Psychology Tip