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Sports Pressure and Competition

Sports Pressure and Competition

Sports can often be a source of peer pressure and performance anxiety for kids, but they don't have to be! Learn how to take the pressure off sports competition, teach good sportsmanship, and be a well-behaved parent.

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Sportsmanship

Emily was crying by the time the softball game ended. It wasn't because her team had lost. It wasn't because she was ...

Source: The Nemours Foundation
WANTED: Behaved Parents on the Sidelines!

How often are the joyful sounds of laughing children running around a soccer field, gravitating to the ball like bees ...

Source: Women's Sports Foundation
Bad Sportsmanship Among Parents at Children's Sporting Events

Taming uncivil behavior, especially by parents in the stands, is becoming an unavoidable initiative in school ...

Source: American Association of School Administrators
Parents' Guide: Putting YOUTH Back Into Sports

Sports are the most prevalent organized after-school activity for 22 million youth ages 5 to 17 in the United States. ...

Source: Government of Erie County, New York
Some Sports Parents Are 'Out of Bounds'

Enthusiastic parents who line the bleachers or sidelines at youth sporting events are critical to their children's ...

Source: Health Finder (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Taking the Pressure Off Sports Competition

Sports are a great way to have fun and stay active. Kids have lots of choices about which sports to do and whether to ...

Source: The Nemours Foundation
Sport Psychology: Quick Facts

Sport psychology is (a) the study of the psychological and mental factors that influence and are influenced by ...

Source: Women's Sports Foundation
Some Thoughts About Youth Sports

Recently a trial was held that involved a father who killed another father at a hockey rink in Reading, Massachusetts ...

Source: Dr. Robert Brooks

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When Your Child Doesn't Make the Team

Source: Education.com
Sexual Harassment in Athletic Settings

Source: National Association for Sport and Physical Education
Preparing for College: Exercising Your Options: Tips for Student-Athletes

Source: National Association for College Admission Counseling
A National Survey About Parent Awareness of the Risk of Severe Brain Injury From Playing Football

Source: PubMed Central (National Institute of Health)
Helping Your Child be a Good Loser

Source: Education.com
Letting Kids Be Kids

Source: American School Counselor Association
Rights and Responsibilities of Interscholastic Athletes

Source: National Association for Sport and Physical Education
Steroids: To Test or To Educate?

Source: American Association of School Administrators
Hazing: Rituals of Bonding or Humiliation?

Source: Dr. Robert Brooks
When Your Kid Wants to Quit the Team

Source: Education.com

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