Parents sometimes have their own agenda about their kids' athletic experience. Kids need to play for their own reasons. Parents' agendas can sometimes feel to kids like unstated expectations. Remember that the primary goal for your athlete is to have fun in sports.
Young athletes use sports as a
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Tips for Sports Parents
Help Your Kids Attain Their Goals
In addition to establishing goals for competition, your child can also establish and monitor goals for practices. This will help them stay committed on track. Obviously, the type of goals your child aims for will depend on his age.
A 5 or 6-year-old's goal may simply be to have fun, make friends
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The Advantages of Competition
Competition is a natural part of childhood development and self-discovery. Just like anything else, competition in sports has advantages and disadvantages. A sport, by definition, is competitive and competition can help athletes grow in many important ways.
Kids can apply the lessons they learn
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Help Kids Manage Expectations
Often, sports kids have unrealistic or even irrational beliefs that hurt their confidence. Many young athletes expect too much of themselves and easily lose confidence when they don't perform up to their expectations. Sometimes, sports kids think that they need to wear the same pair of underwear
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Why Sports Kids Lack Confidence
Most young athletes often lack confidence for three reasons: (1) They do not know how to improve--other than with more practice. This is very common for young athlete. (2) They have a fragile state of confidence; their confidence changes rapidly when they are not successful of lose. (3) They had a
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Help Your Kids Set Smaller Goals
It is important that you help your kids convert strict expectations into smaller, more manageable goals. First, assist your child in identify any strict expectations they maintain about their athletic performance. Expectations are demands athletes place on themselves. They are usually about
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Perfectionist Sports Kids
Many young athletes who are perfectionists in sports don't understand how this trait can make it difficult for them to reach their potential. There are some real advantages to perfectionism in sports. These athletes have a strong work ethic, are committed to goals, and want to learn and improve.
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Addressing Fears of Failure
Fear of failure and perfectionism is so prevalent in my work with athletes that it is becoming rampant in athletics. What you may not know or understand is that perfectionists with fear of failure are highly motivated individuals who want badly to succeed and reach their goals.
But many of the
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