Youth sports articles and tips for sports parents, young athletes, and youth coaches to improve mental performance and overall consistency in sports.
Setting Goals in Youth Sports It’s a great idea to set goals for sports kids. Goal-setting helps improve kids’ motivation and commitment, helps them stay focused on what to accomplish, helps them assess their strengths and weaknesses, and track their performance. But who should do it–the parent, the young athlete, … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Tips to Ensure Your Kids Excel in Sports We all want our kids to excel in sports. But exactly what does it mean to excel — and how can parents best help young athletes? It’s all about perspective. Read on to learn great tips for ensuring your kids excel in … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Reasons Why Sports Kids Don’t Believe in Themselves For a number of reasons, many sports kids don’t believe in themselves—and that’s bad news for them, their teams and their coaches. Here are just a few causes: When kids don’t believe in themselves, they hurt their performance and enjoyment of sports. … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Help Prevent Bullying in Youth Sports Bullying is rampant in sports today. Kids are losing starting roles, being forced to play on other teams, and in some cases dropping out of sports altogether because of bullies. Here’s what one parent had to say on our blog: “My athlete has been … Read Sport Psychology Tip
The Bullying Epidemic in Youth Sports Your sports kids could be the targets of intimidation, harassment, exclusion, physical aggression and other forms of bullying—from athletes and/or coaches. And you might not even know it. Why? Often, young athletes’ first reaction to being treated this way is shame, says Mark Hamilton, … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Why Do Sports Kids Bully? Judging from the many emails and comments we’ve received from sports parents and coaches lately, bullying is an important topic to you. It should be. Bullying is rampant in sports–and kids don’t like to talk about it. Whether you’re sports parents concerned about how your … Read Sport Psychology Tip