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To stay organized and survive the youth sports rat race without having a nervous breakdown make lists and keep a calendar, says veteran sports mom, Pamela Carey.

Some day your child's athletic career will end.  When it does, rather than remembering the great plays they made, the games won, or the moments of excellence, they will hopefully remember that you were there to support them every step of the way.

It is common wisdom that both boys and girls benefit from playing organized sports in a variety of ways, including socially. But do parents also benefit from their involvement? Does the time and money parents spend going to their kids' practices and games benefit them socially? Do they feel it is worth all the effort? According to a study by researchers at Purdue University reported in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, the answer seems to be a qualified yes.

 

The co-author of the new book, What Happy Working Mothers Know, explains, how if you want your kids to be happy and to grow up to be happy adults, you need as a sports parent to show them what a happy adult looks like.  Not as hard as it sounds.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) spells out the basic human rights that children everywhere should enjoy, not only in health care, education, and legal, civil, and social services, but in sports as well.