Taking on the responsibility of coaching your child’s recreational sports team can be quite exciting, but it can also cause a bit of anxiety. Sure, it’s very rewarding to take your passion for a certain sport and share it with a team of young players who share the same passion, but along with the thrill […]

The goal of this exercise is for your athletes to avoid taking the criticism personally and to get some value from it that they can apply in practice and thus improve. It can be hard for your young athletes to take criticism productively from coaches. Kids often don’t interpret communication from coaches correctly because of the delivery or the […]

Below are 10 ways you can help prepare your children to be adults. It’s a sad fact that many parents today are sabotaging their child’s future without even knowing what they are doing or understanding the implications of some of their parenting habits. There is no doubt in my mind that the majority of parents want to […]

The next time you feel the fear of failure creeping in, remember these three things: take a few slow breaths, crack a smile, and focus on the action you’re about to take. There exists a crucial difference between fear and danger. Danger is real. Fear is created. Because we create many of our own fears, […]

It’s important that when a tournament is over and you’re heading home with or without a championship trophy, everyone looks back on the experience as a great one. Many travel teams make it an annual tradition to enter at least one destination tournament. Sometimes the destination involves an airplane, while others might be in reasonable […]

Don’t be a spectator in your recruiting process! Get off the sidelines and engage in your future.  Be proactive! Attend Showcases, tournaments, and camps. Contact College Coaches. Visit colleges. There are many kids who dream of playing college sports around the country. Those same kids have visions of that big-time signing day with the fan […]

17 of the year’s best pieces from our Do It Better columnist Brad Stulberg. Over the past year, the global wellness industry reached a valuation of 4.2 trillion dollars. For perspective, that’s equal to nearly a third of China’s entire GDP. Though there are no reliable statistics for the size of the performance industry, just listen to the […]

That ‘sport is 90% mental’ – what separates a gold medallist from the silver medallist is the ability to hold nerves till the last point of the match is played! What is sports psychology? Let’s decode the speedy growing field of developing mental toughness in the athletic realm. Have you ever seen a kid bungee jumping? […]

Help your young athlete set goals, and ways to reach those goals this season. As a new year begins, you want to help your athlete set appropriate goals for their athletic activities this year. GOAL SETTING IS AN ESSENTIAL PIECE OF THE SPORTS CHILD’S MENTAL GAME. As Michael Jordan said:   “You have to know your goals […]

Tough conversations are in the parenting job description. Your teen gets caught cheating. You and your spouse are separating and it’s time to tell the kids. Your child gets in trouble for bullying. You learn that your middle schooler is investigating porn sites. What makes tough conversations tough? They are hard because you either feel uncomfortable […]