Health & Safety
A mom explains how three major mistakes in the first critical days after her teenage daughter suffered a concussion playing hockey not only made her injury worse and her recovery more difficult, but would affect her physical and emotional health, cognitive abilities, and academic record, and strain family relationships and finances.
Health & Safety
The Penn State scandal didn’t occur in youth sports.  Yet, it is one of the rare occasions that sex abuse by coaches, which is a major problem in youth sports, got the type of national publicity that allowed the problem to penetrate the public consciousness.  The big question is whether we as a sports society are up to the task of doing to more to prevent future abuse.

 

Successful Parenting
The best thing Tom Brady's father may have done for him was not talking to his college football coach at the University of Michigan about his son's lack of playing time.
Successful Parenting
Four blind youth athletes who refused to let their disability stand in the way of playing sports are this month's youth sports heroes.
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Health & Safety
While increase in number of youth sports injuries is result of greater participation, especially by girls, says Lyle Micheli, M.D., Director, Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, some suggest that today's kids are more prone to injury because they are more sedentary and come to sports less physically fit and well-conditioned.

What people are saying about MomsTeam:

"Already, because of Brooke de Lench's inspiration and dedication, a powerful movement of mothers dedicated to improving youth sports has taken form."
Eli H. Newberger, M.D. Dept. of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; author, The Men They Will Become: The Nature and Nurture of Male Character

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