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  • Eleven Ways to Be a Successful Youth Sports Parent
    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 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

Featured Articles

  • Youth Sports Survival Tips: Make Lists, Keep Calendar
    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.
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  • Supporting Your Child Makes All the Difference
    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.
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  • Youth Sports Parenting: The HAPPY formula

    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.

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  • Sports: Respecting Human Rights of Child Important
    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.
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  • Goal Setting Tips for Children: Parent's Role
    Occasionally you'll hear someone say that they aren't a goal-oriented person, or that they don't really know how to set goals. Most likely, they actually set goals every day: Every time they make a "To Do" list for themselves or their "honey" or leave the house expecting to arrive at their destination at a particular time, they are goal-setting without even realizing it.  Two-time Olympic track cyclist and mom, Erin Mirabella, says it's never too early for children to set goals and that parents can play an important role in the goal-setting process.
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