Category: Sports Parents
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Avoid This Mistake When Introducing Your Child
How do you introduce and describe your kids? A study in 2002 from the Journal of Attitudes and Social Cognition examined people’s names and the impact on careers they chose….
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On the Road to Success, Not Taking the Shortcut is the Shortcut
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Tips on Being the Best Sports Parent, Before, During and After the Game
Shane Carney is Founder & Director of the East Bay Eclipse Soccer Club Our kids learn from what we say and do. Don’t we all want to be the kind of…
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Three Ways Parents Can Encourage Mental Toughness
When my work first started to focus on helping young athletes reach their potential in sports and life, I was told by a business coach that I had to “brand”…
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5 Ways Parents Can Build Mental Toughness
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5 Ways to Get Team Parents on Your Side
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What if Your Coach Doesn’t Get Along with Your Young Athlete?
If a young athlete feels that the coach doesn’t like him or her, that young athlete’s confidence can take a serious hit. Confusing questions can start to dominate an athlete’s…
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How to Prevent Torn ACL Injuries Before They Happen to Our Young Athletes
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TeamSnap & PCA Present Scholarship Opportunity for Class of 2017 Athletes!
Student athletes are a special breed. They’ve put the hours in, worked hard, trained hard and studied hard, and that dedication often shows as they prepare to take on the…
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The Pros and Cons of Participation Trophies for Young Athletes
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Why is Weight Management Harder Today Than it Was 30 Years Ago?
The well-known formula for how to lose weight seems like simple math: calories in minus calories out. Yet anyone who has struggled with weight loss knows that there must be something…
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Building Confidence in Young Athletes
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Martial Arts Philosophy: A Way of Mental Toughness
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The Concussion Conundrum
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The Simple Benefits of Spending Time Outdoors
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11 Tips to Help Your Teen Prepare for the Youth Sports Arena
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Confidence: How to Get It and Keep It
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What Single-Sport Specialization Really Means and Why You Should Care
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Vicarious vs. Supportive Parents: Do You Live Through or With Your Child?
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Youth Sports Parents: How to Be a Positive Force
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How to Set Healthy Expectations for Your Young Athlete
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Keep Players Safe This Hockey Season
Although every athlete is concerned about staying safe, few sports present the same dangers as hockey. With high-speed gameplay and potential for errant sticks or pucks, there’s a degree of…
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3 Nontraditional Sports for Nontraditional Kids
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How Parents and Coaches Can Become Better Teammates
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6 Ways to Help Your Kids Learn Sportsmanship
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Honor Your Coach with a National Award from the Positive Coaching Alliance!
Coaches are some of the most important people in the lives of children and young adults. They teach meaningful lessons, they lend a caring ear and a helpful boost up,…
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Youth Sports: When Kids Pay the Price for Cheating Parents
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Why Are Parents Still Ruining Youth Sports?
He was desperate, this little boy. Desperate to impress the evaluators. Desperate to impress the coach (me). And above all else, desperate to impress his dad. Hockey tryouts have arrived…
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7 Reasons You’ll Want to Coach Your Child’s Team
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Make a Change in Your Life: How to Overcome Exercise Bulimia
I have a confession. I used to be an exercise bulimic. When I was 11 years old, did I know what drove me to practice so much? Of course not. Taking my…
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3 Ways To Help Your Child Build Mental Strength Through Sports
Let’s face it: most athletes, particularly teenage athletes, are mentally under-trained. While they might acknowledge that the mind is important to their sport, they don’t always have a plan to…
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6 Ways You May Be Ruining Sports for Your Kid
Parents: somewhere, at some point, a change occurred. Youth sports became professionalized. We have imposed an adult viewpoint of sports onto our youth. In doing so, the system has indeed…
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Steps To Planning a Successful Sports Fundraiser
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5 Ways Youth Sports Provides Career-Building Skills
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Does Your Child Pass the Test for Physical Literacy?
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Balancing Safety & Independence: 3 Classic Summer Sports Travel Scenarios
How to use technology to keep your sanity on a travel team trip This is a collaborative article written by TeamSnap and MamaBear All-star games and travel team trips define…
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The Neighborhood Pick-up Baseball Game: Lessons from the Past
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‘It’s Hard’: A Poem Written from a Sports Mom to Her Young Athletes
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Working Together to Improve Soccer Skills in the Off Season
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Tips For Acquiring Youth Sports Sponsorships
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How To Help Your Child Prevent Sports Injuries
Sports injuries are a risk to any athlete–regardless of age–the moment they step onto the field or court. Injuries can range from the slight to the severe but almost always…
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Are Youth Sports Better Today Than Yesterday?
In a recent blog post by Koach Karl Dewazien, he wrote about the differences between youth sports today and when he began coaching 30 years ago. One reader responded with…
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One Coach’s Take on ‘Win at All Costs’ Parents and Teams
Here’s a question that Koach Karl of the FUNdamental Soccer Book Series and TeamSnap Blog contributor received, and his response: Question: The culture of all American sports is to win,…
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Let Success Lift You
Have you ever had one of those days where everything seems to be going wrong? It’s the kind of day you wish you stayed in bed, however, if you did,…
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The Life of a Sports Parent
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How Team Sports Can Prepare You for Business Success
There’s no question about it: kids (and kids at heart) love participating in team sports. In 2011, 21.5 million children between the ages of 6 and 17 played a team…
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Equipping Your Team With Online Video May Be Easier Than You Think
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Coaching Youth Sports in Public and Private
Pleasing a coach is a powerful incentive. As coaches, our approval can be used to motivate, but also mis-used to punish, if we’re not careful. Keep public coaching positive. When…
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TeamSnap Partner Holiday Gift Guide
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Honor a Youth or High School Sports Coach with a National Award
Ask most adults who played youth sports if their experience taught them something about life, and the answer will be a definitive “Yes!” And we have coaches to thank for…
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Are Soccer Coaches & Parents Out of Line on the Sidelines?
In our quest to help young soccer players improve, we may have started something that is more harmful than helpful. It is natural for adults to shout encouragement and advice…
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POV Swap: The Ideal Parent and the Ideal Coach
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Customer Profile: How One Mom Uses TeamSnap to Manage Multiple Teams for Two Teens
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‘Jock’ or ‘Artist’: Why Do Kids Have to Choose?
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How Safe is Your Kid’s P.E. Class?
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The First Soccer Tournament: Nobody Told Them It Would Be Like This!
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10 Ways You’re Causing Your Child Sport-Induced Stress
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How Your Team Can Save Lives … If You Coach Them To
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10 Ways to Help Your Child Manage Sports-Induced Stress
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How Much Is Too Much to Spend on Tee Ball Gear?
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What Message is Jurgen Klinsmann Sending to Our Youth?
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Should I Let My Kid Quit Sports?
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Should You Speak Up?
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Why Wasn’t Marcus Smart “Idiot-Proof”?
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Is Your Child Getting Enough Zinc?
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The Quitting Phenomenon
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Changing the Game: An Interview with John O’Sullivan
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3 Ways To Get Your To-Do List Done Faster
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Being the Coach’s Favorite is No Bed of Roses
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The Truth About Youth Sports Tryouts
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How Music Helps You Move
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Confidence in Sports
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Healthy Fuel for Youth Soccer Games and Practices
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Why Athletes Bonk
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Research Says Young Athletes Need More Than Just Practice To Succeed
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Why Kids Quit Sports
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Becoming More Than a Bystander – On and Off the Field
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What We Don’t Know In Athletics Can Hurt Us
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Encouraging Your Child in Youth Sports
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Synthetic Turf Fields: Friend or Foe?
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Staying Hydrated, Happy and Healthy for the Summer Sports Season
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How to Build a Successful Team: #4 Know How Hard to Push and #5 Seek Help
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The Benefits of Private Coaching Extend Beyond The Field
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How to Build a Successful Team: #2 Keep Mom and Dad Happy and #3 Find a Balance
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How to Build a Successful Team On and Off the Field
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Six Ways Parents Can Help Prevent Sports Injuries
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Is Cheerleading a Sport?
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Preventing Concussions: Is it Possible?
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A Concussion Epidemic?
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The Coach’s Child
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Is the Monday Night Football Furor Fueling Bad Sportsmanship?
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Say Goodbye to the Clipboard!
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TeamSnap All-Stars: Twin Cities Little League is Snapping Up the Bay Area
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Is My Player Ready for Competitive Soccer? Part 2
Last time we looked at several topics I believe should be considered in determining if your player is ready for the jump to club soccer. Things such as whether the…
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Rethinking Vince Lombardi
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An American in Paris
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How Young is Too Young to Travel?
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Those Darn REFS!
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Is My Player Ready for Competitive Soccer? Part 1
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Should Your Child ‘Play Up’?
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