Janis B. Meredith's Blog: JBM Thinks Sportsparenting, page 19

Are Parenting Challenges Getting You Down? If So, my question is: If Not Now, When?

Everyone needs someone to cheer them on, encourage them, and challenge them to grow… including parents.  Parenting is the hardest job on the planet. Unfortunately, in our culture, parents often feel alone as they navigate the challenges of a growing kid and an ever-changing culture. Have you ever felt desperate in your parenting? Like nothing...

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What’s Your Parenting Style: Sherpa, Snowplow or Drone?

Are you a sherpa, snowplow or drone parent? I recently read an article, spurred by the recent college admission scandals, that examined these parenting styles. If you haven’t heard about them, catch up here. The helicopter parent describes “a parent who hovers over a child in a way that runs counter to the parent’s responsibility...

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4 Ways to Avoid Accidental Parenting

Accidents are what happen when people drive cars, ski down the slopes and cut up vegetables with sharp knives. But accidents do not have to characterize the way you parent. Accidental parenting means you fly by the seat of your pants, winging it day after day, month after month, and year after year. Accidental parenting...

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3 Ways That Parents Handle Their Kids’ Bad Behavior –Is One of These You?

Although there are as many different ways to parent as there are families in this world, it does seem that parents tend to default to certain ways of handling their children’s bad behavior. In an article on Romper.com, the author listed three parenting stand-bys for disciplining their children: The time-out parent. Parents who put their...

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5 Ways Coaches and Parents Can Work Together in Youth Sports

If you talk to coaches, they will tell you stories about overprotective, controlling parents. If you talk to parents, they will tell you about unfair coaches who don’t let their kids play enough or play the position they want. There’s a lot of finger pointing in youth sports. And the result is that many parents...

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4 Foundations Your Child MUST Have to be a Success in Life

New parents, veteran parents, confident parents, insecure parents–calling ALL parents with kids of all ages—this post is parenting 101. No matter how long you’ve been parenting, there’s never a better time to lay the foundations in your children than NOW. If your child is still in diapers, start laying the foundations. If your child is...

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Talk With Your Teens: 8 Simple Steps to Good Communication

If your family is not communicating in a healthy way, then you are missing out on one of the biggest keys to building a happy home. For many of you, it’s not your fault. You were not shown by your parents how to have healthy conversations. And to you, I say: It’s never too late...

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Parents, Let Go of These 4 Expectations

Babies come into this world with lots of expectations. Mom and Dad imagine that children will be cute, fun, and fulfilling and that they will grow up to make us proud. We expect that they will learn what they are supposed to learn when they should learn it: like potty training, sleeping through the night,...

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4 Boundaries Every Parent Should Set

Contrary to what your kids may think, boundaries are a good thing. They are not meant to suffocate your child or even to have total control; but rather to help them learn self-control and how to eventually set up their own boundaries. It’s hard for some parents to set rules or boundaries. Of course, when...

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2 Roadblocks to Success in Youth Sports

If your child is struggling in youth sports, what are the roadblocks to success that are holding them back? It’s easy to blame the team, the coach, the league, their teammates–placing blame on everyone or everything but where your focus actually needs to be: on your child. I know you don’t like hearing that. I...

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