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When youth sports coaching upheavals drag the team down, what should you do?

If your child has played for a team that suffered through youth sports coaching drama, then you know just how frustrating it can be. Any of these sound familiar? The coaches don’t get along with each other The head coach fires assistants who know more about the sport than he does The coaches have no [...]

Will youth sports overshadow your Mother’s Day?

There’s much discussion among the youth sports pundits about whether travel ball is good for young athletes. But from what I can tell, it’s not going away any time soon. If your child is entrenched in the world of travel sports, then your weekends are not your own and there is a very good chance [...]

Good parenting and paper airplanes

Good parenting is really a journey of letting go of our kids, one step, one day, one year at a time. It’s very hard to do. I’m still struggling and my kids are 19,22, and 25. I think I may die struggling with this. Although this video is rather simplistic in its approach of releasing [...]

6 best sports drinks for kids

There’s a lot of discussion going on about what athletes should drink.  I decided to do some research and discover for myself what experts agree on as the 6 best sports drinks for kids. Here’s what I learned: Water Our bodies are made up of  70-percent water and when you sweat you lose water concentration. [...]

Parenting skills: How to deal with your child’s bossy attitude

Last month, I talked about  the parenting  skills it takes to discern why your child may be bossy.   Hopefully, you’ve been able to spend some time thinking about it and maybe putting your finger on a reason. Now, the question is, what parenting skills can you use to help your child stop being so [...]

When Google Reader goes, will you be left behind?

You are Invited Google Reader is closing. Details here. If you follow JBM Thinks with Google Reader, you won’t get news from me anymore. I’d miss you and you’d miss me, right? So I’m inviting you  to get my posts through: Signing up for email update Follow me on Facebook   If you want to [...]

Good parenting: let’s do a little more dancing

There’s a lot of good parenting advice available. But I think there’s one thing that often gets overlooked; it’s something we all could stand to do a little more of–Let’s do a little more dancing. Dancing is good for the spirit. You can’t dance and be despondent. Dancing is good for the mind. You can’t [...]

“Sports for kids is a waste of time”

Kids who play youth sports spend hours and hours practicing and playing the game.  If you step back and look at life as a whole, do you see sports for kids as a waste of time? One old guy who came into my husband’s work place does. His comment to my husband in one of [...]

Should we do away with scoreboards in youth sports?

Have you heard about the move to do away with scoreboards in youth sports? Richard Way, the project lead for Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) with Canadian Sport for Life, says competitive sports do nothing to build self-esteem and positive sportsmanship. He feels that if we remove the focus on winning, players will stay engaged longer. Read [...]

An absolutely awesome (and cheap) way to save youth sports photos!

We have gone very techie with our picture taking, snapping away with our phones or digital cameras at our kids’ youth sports events. Putting those pics on Facebook or Instagram is a fun and quick way to share, but sometimes you just gotta have the real thing. That’s why Groovebook is so awesome. This free [...]