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How kids really feel when their parents watch their games.
There is a fine line between parental support and pushiness.
Are you putting too much pressure on your children to get a sports scholarship? That kind of pressure on kids doesn’t work very well.
Youth sports, through the eyes of kids polled by i9 Sports, have a problem: the adults who run them. Eighty-four percent of kids said they either want to or have quit a team, and a third wish adults didn't watch their games because it makes them nervous.
In “Mental Training Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers your sports psychology and mental training questions about sports parents who pressure their kids.
Los Angeles Lakers Assistant Coach Jesse Mermuys describes how young athletes already put so much pressure on themselves to perform; let’s not add to it.
Small clip highlighting the role some parents play in youth athletics, sometimes, to the detriment of the game.
Look up “out-of-control parent on sidelines” online and you’ll find hundreds of videos and stories of parental misbehavior at youth sports events. Here’s some advice for parents who want to be supportive without going viral.
Parents today are fearful for their children. Fear of harm, fear of community (not keeping up with the Jones's), and fear of failure. These fears perpetuate helicopter parenting behaviour, in all of us! Yes, we have all demonstrated some level of over parenting behaviour.
Experts say the more parents involve themselves in their kids’ sporting events, including acting out on sidelines, the less enjoyable and more results-driven is the child’s athletic experience.
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