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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🏀⏱️ Engaging in after-school sports is often seen as a surefire way for teens to boost their daily physical activity. However, a recent study unveils a surprising revelation: teenagers who participate in sports post-school are only 7 minutes more active per day than their non-participating peers. 📊🤔 This underscores the notion that sports, while beneficial, are just one avenue of physical activity. It's crucial to promote a holistic approach, encouraging teens to be active throughout the day, every day. For researchers, coaches, and health professionals, this insight can reshape strategies to foster consistent and varied physical activity among the youth. 🔄🌟 For an in-depth exploration of this topic and its implications, please read the full article: https://snip.ly/7xb186 #TeenActivity #SportsResearch #HolisticHealth #YouthWellbeing
Teenagers who play sport after school are only 7 minutes more active per day than those who don't
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Some kids have determined – often without much “experience” – that they just don’t like sports. Here are 5 tips for getting those “I hate sports” kiddos out in the yard with you!
5 Tips to Encourage Sporty Play with Reluctant Kids
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Those who know me well will know that I have a passion for performance and behavioural psychology. Over the past 15 years or so, I've worked with numerous entrepreneurs, leaders, high performers, and teams to help them boost their performance to achieve their goals and/or dreams. Both of my children are aspiring athletes (one does rugby, the other athletics). Through my experiences and conversations on the side-lines, I recognised there was an opportunity to pivot my focus to mindset coaching for athletes. And in case I haven't told you (which surely can't be many of you!!), I used to do fencing when I was younger. And did pretty well at it! So I understand first-hand what it's like to face the pressures of competitive sport. So, since the start of this year, I started a new hobby - working with aspiring athletes and their parents & coaches to help develop their mental fitness. I've set up pages on both Instagram and Facebook (both are @thetalentedmind, if you're interested!) to share tips and techniques about sports psychology and mindset development. But because this is a hobby and a passion, I've avoided sharing anything here on LinkedIn. I don't know why, but it felt a bit odd. I've now realised though that there will be people in my network who'd hugely benefit from this - so here I am 😊 I've just set up my new LinkedIn page - The Talented Mind. If you're a sport parent, or even some who plays competitive sports, please feel free to follow my page. I'll be sharing plenty of insights and tips on mental fitness for athletes. I've launched the page with a link to my FREE parents guide on 'Dealing with Disappointments'. The link and details are in the post below. If you're a sports parents, be sure to grab your copy now 👇
🏆 My guide for sports parents is here and it's absolutely FREE 🏆 DEALING WITH DISAPPOINTMENT As every sports parents will know, disappointment is an inevitable part of every athlete's journey. There are such fine margins between elation and frustration, aren't there?! How you respond to your child's disappointment can have a profound impact on their resilience, confidence, and overall well-being. But are you ever left wondering what on earth to do to support your athlete child when they face disappointment? Whether they lost a game, missed that crucial shot, didn't win the race, or didn't get whatever other result they were hoping for... You're not alone. Many parents tell me they struggle to deal with the inevitable emotional lows that their children experience. And it can often feel that whatever we say just seems to make it all worse!! 🙈 But don't worry, I've got your back! I've created the ultimate guide on dealing with disappointments just for sports parents like you! 😍 Click the link here if you want to get your hands on a FREE copy now - https://lnkd.in/eC6EJhq6 #SportsPsychology #MindsetCoachForAthletes #SportsParents #PeakPerformance #WinnersMindset
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Having spent four years in the sports industry, I've witnessed firsthand how parental expectations can significantly impact a child's future. It's not uncommon for parents in their 40s, who may not have achieved much in their own careers, to place high demands on their 8-11 year old children to excel in sports, creating overwhelming pressure for the young athletes. The unfulfilled desires of parents are often projected onto their children, pushing them to achieve unrealistic standards. This cycle of expectation and pressure needs to evolve. The question remains - how and when can this change be implemented? Watch more on this important issue here: https://lnkd.in/gGUgr9uM #SportsIndustry #ParentalExpectations #ChildDevelopment #YouthSports #PressureOnChildren
Sports Parents: Do You Pressure Your Athletes with Expectations?
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Take a deep breath, stay in the moment, and support your child's sports journey. Check out this guide for staying stress-free while cheering them on! 🎽🏀⚽️📣 https://bit.ly/4aSb3n2
Tips to Help Sideline Parents Reduce Stress
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🏆 My guide for sports parents is here and it's absolutely FREE 🏆 DEALING WITH DISAPPOINTMENT As every sports parents will know, disappointment is an inevitable part of every athlete's journey. There are such fine margins between elation and frustration, aren't there?! How you respond to your child's disappointment can have a profound impact on their resilience, confidence, and overall well-being. But are you ever left wondering what on earth to do to support your athlete child when they face disappointment? Whether they lost a game, missed that crucial shot, didn't win the race, or didn't get whatever other result they were hoping for... You're not alone. Many parents tell me they struggle to deal with the inevitable emotional lows that their children experience. And it can often feel that whatever we say just seems to make it all worse!! 🙈 But don't worry, I've got your back! I've created the ultimate guide on dealing with disappointments just for sports parents like you! 😍 Click the link here if you want to get your hands on a FREE copy now - https://lnkd.in/eC6EJhq6 #SportsPsychology #MindsetCoachForAthletes #SportsParents #PeakPerformance #WinnersMindset
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https://lnkd.in/dGQq7gcP If they love what they - they'll do what they love. Probably the most important video I've ever done. It still breaks my heart to see so many sporting systems around the world hanging on to the outdated, out of touch model where every child who picks up a tennis racket or jumps in a swimming pool or kicks a football - should be, must be, has to be on the "pathway" to being an elite athlete. We - and I include my former self - have got this so wrong. Create the sports experience where kids fall in love with sport. Why? Because if you love what you do - you will do what you love - i.e. they keep coming. The only kid who doesn't improve is the one who isn't there! and increasingly - again supported by research all over the world - organzied, competitive sport is dying. It has been dying for many years - covid merely accelerated the decline. So this is my plea: Coaches, parents / carers, sports administrators, sports leaders - PLEASE move on from the "every child must be an elite athlete" version of sport. Put it to rest. It's the 1970s model of sport. Let it go. Instead, focus your energy, your passion and your resources on creating wonderful, connected, engaging, safe sports experiences for every child, inspire them to believe in themselves and give them the opportunity to fall in love with sport. Then - the ones with talent and passion and commitment and resilience - will - if THEY choose - become high performing athletes. It's time we all shifted our mindsets, our attitudes and our focus from the performance pathway to the participation playground. #waynegoldsmith #wgcoaching #sport #sportsparticipation #juniorsport #sportscoaching #sportingsystems #sportsparenting #sportsadministation #sportsperformance #highperformancesport
wayne goldsmith on Instagram: "Why do kids play sport? Research conducted in the UK, the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, several nations in Europe and many other places is very very consistent: 1. To have fun. 2. To have fun playing with their friends. 3. To learn, to improve, to get better. 4. To feel safe. 5. To do something they love to do. It still breaks my heart to see so many sporting
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How often do you have intentional conversations with your kids about the youth sports experience? In our parent guidebook titled HERO, we have an exercise titled Listening With the Heart, which encourages parents to take their kid on a date and ask them a series of questions to learn how their child really feels. Teaching our kids to speak their truth is an important life skill that can quickly get lost in the youth sports machine. #parenting #parentingtips #youthsports
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I grow evermore condeming of Competitive Sport. We too often overvalue it to the detriment of our youth. Having raised two higher level athletes grassroots folks at our soccer club sometimes ask me for advice. Hindsight being a real liability sometimes I have realized I moved them each from recreational sport "upward" to Competitive levels seeking Better Sport. My girls each have a passion for motion and ease with physical literacy - agility balance, coordination and speed - they always have had. I actually think it's been the language of origin at our house. It stood out when they were wee so when they were old enough to start participating in organized sport they were often outliers. They soon became restless and even critical of teammates...and eventually recruited. Having been their first coach I participated in as much, and for as long as it worked for us, so I was available to temper their influences more than average. I safe guarded their mentorship for as long as possible giving each of their coaches copies of the 1990s Catch Them Being Good as we journied the perils of pre-LTAD youth sport. What struck me was always the amount of poaching over coaching in youth sport; it's disgusting really - but that's another story.... With both in their 20s now I can only say that we needed a pathway for elite level athletes more than we needed Competitive Sport. Running a grassroots soccer club now keeps my nose in the LTA(P)D progress of it - going on 10+ years now for LTPD. Our club runs PSO and NSO required coaching courses annually. The content extolls it's virtues but it's still not reaching enough Camp Chair Coffee Clutches. Too many are not happy until the BEAT their opponent such a word,..."beat". As I roam the fields watching my winters work roll out every team still has adults yelling at 8 year olds like they're watching a dog fight. I see well intentioned coaches give in and start up too. Likely influenced by the pressure on the facing sidelines or from other benches they slowly amp up to Joystick Coaching even when they know better and can recite the liabilities to the youth player of it. So what I offer parents who ask now is that I wish I could have just found my kids sport pathways that offered them a higher level of participant more so than a Pathway of Pressure. I ask them to put down their cups (I've been watching you; you don't need more caffeine) and participate. Give up their point of view and adopt their childs'. One of discovering boundaries of their own instead of seeking out the limitations of the opposition so they can Beat them.
When our kids start out in sports, we have lots of patience and low expectations. But soon high costs, time commitments and societal pressure reduce our patience and increase our expectations, and we reach a tipping point where sport can turn ugly. As parents and coaches we must be aware of this moment, keep our expectations in check, and our patience high. I wrote a blog about this 10 years ago and just rewrote it because it is probably more relevant today, as are the solutions to keep ourselves in check and our kids focused on the enjoyment of sport. Enjoy. https://lnkd.in/guBBiWRG
The Tipping Point in Youth Sports 2024 - Changing the Game Project
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Support Your Child’s Passion in Sports As parents, the words we use with our children before and after their sports activities can have a profound impact on their enjoyment and self-esteem. Psychological research shows that simple, positive statements are incredibly powerful. Before they play, encourage them with: - Have fun. - Play hard. - I love you. After the game, reinforce the positive experience: - Did you have fun? - I’m proud of you. - I love you. Remember, it's their game, not ours. Our role is to support and encourage, not to relive our own aspirations. Ask them about the parts of the game they enjoyed, not just the score. This approach helps kids love the sport and grow with confidence. Let's nurture their love for the game by giving them our support and positivity to imitate. #golf #juniorgolf
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