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What is the right age to register your child for a sport? How do you decide what sport is appropriate for your child? And, how do you support your child’s efforts in the sport without taking over? Read on for advice and guidance on how to be the best soccer mom (or dad) you can be.

Children and Sports Overview

• Choosing the Right Sport and Physical Activity Program for Your Child
• The Benefits of Team Sports
• Navigating Youth Sports
• Signing Kids Up for Sports
• Sports Physicals
• Rights and Responsibilities of Interscholastic Athletes
• Should Your Preschooler Play Sports?

Parent Involvement in Sports

• Parents' Guide: Putting YOUTH Back Into Sports
• WANTED: Behaved Parents on the Sidelines!
• Coaching the Parents
• TOP 10 Questions for Parents Placing their Child in the Care/Leadership of a Coach
• Parent, Coach and Child: The Athletic Triangle
• Coaches Code of Conduct: What to Look for in a Coach
• Cold-Weather Sports and Your Family
• Do You Know How to Feed Your Child Athlete?
• Sport Psychology: Quick Facts
• Sports Supplements
• Women’s Sports Foundation Position Statement: Abuse of Athletes by Coaches and/or Peers
• Addressing the Issue of Verbal, Physical and Psychological Abuse of Athletes: The Foundation Position
• Sexual Harassment in Athletic Settings

Sports Injuries

• Sports Injuries: Does My Child Need to See a Doctor?
• Return to Practice/Play
• First Aid Kit Contents
• R.I.C.E. Treatment
• Homemade Ice Packs
• Nolan Ryan Fitness Guide: Sports Injuries - How to Stay in the Game
• Heat Injuries
• Children Who Skateboard, Ride Scooters, or Skate Have High Risk of Fractures
• Most Teen Athletes Skip Protective Gear for Lower Body
• Cheerleading Injuries Double During Last Decade
• Body-Checking Rules Reduce Childhood Ice Hockey Injuries
• A National Survey About Parent Awareness of the Risk of Severe Brain Injury From Playing Football
• Overweight Athletes With Ankle Problems at Greater Risk for Sprains
• Over-training
• Dislocations and Fractures (Broken Bones) During Physical Activity
• Sprains and Strains During Physical Activity
• Contusions (Bruises) and Athletic Activity
• Concussions and Athletic Activity
• Eye Injuries and Athletic Activity
• Nose Injuries and Athletic Activity
• Dental Injuries and Athletic Activity
• Ligament Injuries and Athletic Activity
• Meniscus Injury - Cartilage Tear and Athletic Activities
• Patellofemoral Knee Pain – Kneecap Pain and Athletic Activity
• Osgood-Schlatter Disease and Athletic Activity
• Shin Splints and Athletic Activity
• Ankle Sprain and Athletic Activity
• Turf Toe
• Plantar Fascitis - Heel Spur Syndrome
• Shoulder Separation
• Shoulder Dislocation
• Overuse Shoulder Injuries
• Tennis Elbow
• Little League Elbow or Golfer's Elbow
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Wrist Sprain
• Finger/Thumb Dislocation
• Finger Sprain
• Low Back Pain

Related Health Issues and Sports

• Can Kids and Teens With Asthma Play Sports?
• Sports, Exercise, and Diabetes
• AAP Condemns Steroid Use
• Sports Supplements: What Are Teens Using?
• Unhealthy Weight Control Widespread in Young Athletes, AAP Says
• Research Report: Health Risks and the Teen Athlete
• Parents’ and Coaches’ Guide to Dehydration and Other Heat Illnesses in Children
• Fluid Replacement and Prevention of Heat Illness
• Lightening and Athletic Activities
• HIV/Blood Borne Pathogens and Athletic Activity

Athletic Pressure and Competition

• Sportsmanship
• Sports and Kids: Pathway to Healthy Development or to Unhealthy Competition?
• Taking the Pressure Off Sports Competition
• Teaching Good Attitudes through Televised Sports

Sports and Girls

• Catch the Ball: Girls' and Women's Fitness Tips
• Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls
• GoGirlGo! Tips to Get a Girl Active
• Benefits - Why Sports Participation for Girls and Women
• Exercise and Stress Fractures in Teen Girls
• Sports-Loving Girls May Sacrifice Long-Term Health for Performance
• Gender Differences: Third Grade
• Bun Huggers: To Wear or Not to Wear