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How to Raise Kids Who Bounce Back
By Janis MeredithHow do you help your child face the same pitcher who struck him out three times already in the game? What will help your young football player keep running with the ball even after...
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4 Signs That You Are Doing ‘Team’ the Right Way
By Janis MeredithThere are thousands and thousands of youth sports teams, but how many of them are really doing team the right way? As a sports mom for 21 years, I watched my kids play on more than...
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Become the Youth Sports Parent You’ve Always Wanted to Be
By Janis MeredithHave you heard this parenting tip? Become the parent you’ve always wanted to be. Good advice, but it stops short.If becoming a good parent was as easy as following that simple word of...
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8 Tools for Every Sports Parent’s Survival Kit
By Janis MeredithEvery time you take your children to practice or a game, they take with them some very important pieces of equipment that will help they play the game. I think it’s just as important...
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The Advantages of Being a Dual-Sport Athlete
By The Recruiting CoachesThere has been a huge shift in recent years for high school athletes to focus on one sport for a variety of reasons. Many high school athletes feel pressure that they have to...
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6 Common Youth Sports Exaggerations
By Janis MeredithBecause youth sports are so full of emotion and excitement for sports parents and athletes, it is not unusual for gross exaggerations to occur. When things are not going as you think...
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Should Coaches Treat All Kids the Same?
By Janis MeredithIf you’d asked me that question at the beginning of my sports parenting journey, I would have said yes, absolutely! But 21 years of sports parenting and 28 years of being a coach’s...
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10 Reasons Youth Sports Brings Out Your Crazy
By Janis MeredithEvery time you go to a sporting event to watch your child play, there’s a good chance that you’ll feel a strange metamorphosis take place within you. In a way, it’s almost as if an...
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The Car Ride Home—Why So Many Kids Quit Sports
By Christina CallawayBeing a former competitive athlete, I am grateful my parents had a healthy balance of knowing when to push me to be my best and when to turn the reigns over to me and allow my own...
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5 Things to Help You Understand Your Child’s Coach
By Janis MeredithYour kids will never play for a perfect coach. After 20 years of sports parenting, I’ve learned how some coaches operate–wisdom I wish I’d had before my kids started playing.Please...
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8 Signs You’re Micromanaging Your Youth Sports Athlete
By Janis MeredithYou might be overstepping your boundaries as a parent at your child’s youth sports game, and in fact, you may not even realize it.Do you attend every youth sports event your child...
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Dad, Who Is My Competition?
By Mark MaguireIn an article I read some years ago on Economic Competition, a reader posted about how he hated competition, and the world would be a better place without competition. I thought about...
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Early Sports Specialization: Helpful or Harmful?
By Kendrique CoatsEarly sports specialization seems to be the moneymaker these days, and why not? As numbers increase in youth development and travel leagues, surely someone has to take advantage of...
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Allowing Failure to Work Its Magic
By Mark MaguireWhen your child does something significant on the athletic field and other parents are expressing their appreciation of his or her skills it’s hard not to feel filled with pride, and...
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Steps to Staying Committed to Working Out
By Kamal WalkerWhether you’re a first timer or an experienced athlete struggling to get your routine down, it’s easy to fall off the workout train.If you’re ready to be committed, follow these simple...
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Dad, The Odds Be Ever Against Me
By Mark MaguireIn the The Hunger Games trilogy, the catchphrase throughout the series is, ‘may the odds be ever in your favor.’ Of course they weren’t, but like we’re sold the deceptive dreams of...
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Dad, It Doesn’t Matter
By Mark MaguireIt’s nice to be acknowledged. It feels good to be recognized.On the contrary, it’s distressing to feel forgotten, and even more so if you think your child has been overlooked.The need...
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Dad! It Doesn’t Matter! (Part 2): Who You Gonna Call?
Editor’s Note: Read Part 1 of the Dad! It Doesn’t Matter! series.By Mark Maguire(Warning: there are always issues and solutions I write about that people will disagree with. This blog may be one of...
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A Frustrated Dad Gave Me the Best Recruiting Advice
By The Recruiting CoachesThe best recruiting advice I’ve ever received came from one of the most frustrated dads I’ve ever worked with through the recruiting process. He could not figure out why the...
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Baseball Diamonds Need Home Base
Being a mom of a child who plays sports is much more than practices, games, snacks and dirty uniforms. We are first and foremost, a supporter! I will forever be my son’s biggest fan – he can twirl in a...
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