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Help for Parents: Quality or Quantity Time?

I’m always looking for help for parents and I found this great blog post  by Reggie Joiner that addresses the issue of quality versus quantity time in a new light. Whether you are a sports parent or not, you must read what Reggie says. His insight for parents is awesome.  Read it now.     [...]

Why You Don’t Have to be Super Mom or Dad… or Do you?

There’s a lot of pressure on parents to be super mom or dad. Everywhere you look, there are blogs, books, seminars, magazines, and TV shows that address parenting issues. They tell you how to make your kids obey in six easy steps, how to feed your kid healthy meals with these 10 suggestions, or four [...]

Keep Your Child From Losing Sports Equipment

Do you ever have trouble with your child losing sports equipment? Perhaps he has trouble hanging onto swimming goggles or a helmet, especially when there are several of them laying around. If you’ve found yourself frustrated at your child losing equipment or picking up the wrong thing after a game, then you might find these [...]

Worry Free Sports Parenting: Is it Possible?

Is worry-free sports parenting even possible? I believe you can come pretty darn close and I will tell you why. There’s a ton of stuff in youth sports to fret about: will my child make the team? will he get much playing time? will he start? will he have fun? will he get hurt? will [...]

Cussing in Youth Sports: Does it Have to be Part of the Game?

Cussing in youth sports, as seen in the controversial reality show Friday Night Tykes, seems to be commonplace these days, especially in Texas youth football.  In fact, cussing is so prevalent in today’s world that many people almost don’t even hear it anymore. We are so desensitized to it that words that would have never been used [...]

Good parenting: 4 Steps to Being All-In

Good parenting is exhausting. Because good parents don’t stand around and just watch, they go all in. Let’s use the Grand Canyon as an example. If you’ve ever been there, there’s two ways to experience it. There’s hiking it down through the canyon and up to the rim, and there’s just enjoying the view from [...]

Why play youth sports? Here’s The ONE Reason

Why play youth sports? Your child should play youth sports for a lot of good reasons: exercise, friendships, life-lessons.  But the most important, the ONE reason he should be playing is for the love of the game. When your child is little, he may not really understand that he loves the game. He may just [...]

One Sports Parent’s letter to Peyton Manning

I love this article posted by Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann written as a letter to Peyton Manning.  Actually this is something I wish I would have written!  Take a few minutes to read what she says about Peyton Manning’s real legacy.   Sportsparenting Survival Guides: Volleyball Mom’s Survival Guide, Football Mom’s Survival Guide,  Softball Mom’s Survival Guide Get my free new [...]

Should There be a Silent Saturday?

Silent Saturdays were never suggested to us when my kids were playing youth sports. And quite honestly, I’m not sure how I would have managed to keep quiet. In case you haven’t heard, Silent Saturday is the name given to the day when coaches of youth sports are asked not to coach and parents are asked [...]

Mind Games in Sports: Help Your Child be a Winner

Mind games are a part of youth sports. You’ve probably heard coaches and athletes say that sports is much more of a mental game than physical. The mental game includes the ability to focus, move past mistakes, and persist through adversity. After raising three kids who played sports through college, I’d add that the mental [...]