Often, we hear from sports parents who say that their young athletes seem to stop trying after they make a mistake or two during a game or performance. Suddenly, they seem worried, tense and are playing or performing in a tight manner. Many sports parents are perplexed by their kids’ behavior in games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does this sound familiar in your situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These kids are often very comfortable in practice, but freeze up during competition. They don’t seem to be able to trust in the skills that they learned during practice. Something seems to hold them back from performing like they do in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Often, these sports kids possess a number of positive traits that help them excel in sports.They work hard, attend practices regularly and expect a lot of themselves<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, however, their perfectionism can undermine their confidence and cause a lot of heartache when they under-perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worst of all, they try too hard to avoid making mistakes. They scold themselves for goofing up. They become frustrated quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ******************************************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re a parent or coach with kids who are perfectionists in sports, ******************************************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Please post your questions here about perfectionism and young athletes! We’ll give you some sure-fire tips for helping your perfectionist young athletes learn how to make the most of their potential!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patrick Cohn, Ph.D., Mental Training Expert \u00a92022 The Ultimate Sports Parent by Peak Performance Sports <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Often, we hear from sports parents who say that their young athletes seem to stop trying after they make a mistake or two during a game or performance. Suddenly, they seem worried, tense and are playing or performing in a tight manner. Many sports parents are perplexed by their kids’ … Read Sport Psychology Tip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-perfectionism-in-sports","category-perfectionism-is-young-athletes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthsportspsychology.com\/youth_sports_psychology_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>what’s the most important question you have for us about perfectionism?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
& Lisa Cohn, Youth Sports Parenting Author<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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