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Eleven Ways to Be a Successful Youth Sports Parent [11]
1. Make sure your children know that--win or lose--you love them and are not disappointed with their performance.
2. Be realistic about your child's physical ability.
3. Help your child set realistic goals.
4. Emphasize improved performance, not winning.
5. Positively reinforce improved skills.
6. Don't relive your own athletic past through your child.
7. Provide a safe environment for training and competition. This includes proper training methods and use of equipment.
8. Control your own emotions at games and events. Don't yell at other players, coaches, or officials.
9. Be a cheerleader for your child and the other children on the team.
10. Respect your child's coaches. Communicate openly with them. If you disagree with their approach, discuss it with them.
11. Be a positive role model. Enjoy sports yourself. Set your own goals. Live a healthy lifestyle.
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Raising Sports Active Kids

Raising sports active kids is difficult, perhaps never more so than today. Parents feel pressure to help their kids succeed and to keep up with other parents in an increasingly winner-take-all society. Too often, parents feel that if they don't do everything for their child, they are bad parents.

Research shows that parents intuitively know how to balance their child's development. Yet more and more parents seem to be ignoring their own intuition by over-scheduling and over-stressing their child. And, most of the time we don

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Desire To Excel in Sports Needs To Be Child's, Not Parent's [22]

When is the desire to excel a child's and when is it the parents'? When does a parent cross the line from supportive to pushy? Sports parents should always remember to think about their motives for encouraging their child to play a certain sport or to attain a specific goal.

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Politics: Constant Concern for Sports Parents [23]

Brooke de Lench says politics in youth and school sports are always
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Taking An Athlete's Gym On The Road Is Easy [24]

Taking an athlete's gym on the road is easy, says strength and conditioning guru Mike Boyle, if they just bring along a few simple tools.

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Safety Tips for Carpooling [25]

Children are getting back into school mode with the start of classes, sports practices and games, and other after-school activities, and for many families that means carpools!

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