What You Need to Know About E-Cigarettes and Vaping
Parents, teachers, and coaches must once again help kids understand the risks and learn to reject e-cigarettes and vaping.
Clean and Healthy Competition: Why It Matters
Why coaches, parents, and youth sport role models must help shape an environment that prioritizes clean and healthy competition.
How to Avoid Athlete Burnout in Youth Sports
Ongoing work by researchers is revealing not only the real causes of burnout in youth athletes, but also how it can be avoided.
How to Combat an Excuse Mentality
Athletes with an excuse mentality fear negative outcomes and make excuses. Here are four practical tips for combating the excuse mentality on your team.
How to Get Back in the Game with a Stronger Team Mindset
One of a coach’s most important roles is teaching young athletes how to successfully get back in the game with a stronger team mindset.
How to Overcome High Expectations on a New Team
Learn several ways parents, coaches, and athletes can help minimize the pressure and maximize performance by overcoming high expectations on a new team.
Small Wins, Big Gains: Why Youth Athletes Should Try Incremental Goals
Parents and coach should help youth athletes design a system of incremental goals that break down their big goals into smaller, more gradual ones.
How to Use Gratitude to Build Stronger Teams
As many coaches at all levels of sport know, athletes and teams can use gratitude to build stronger teams.
Grit: How to Get Back Up After Failure
To help kids develop greater resilience, perseverance, and grit, it’s important to encourage young athletes to get back up after failure.
How to Strengthen Your Athlete’s Growth Mindset
Here’s how coaches and parents can help strengthen an athlete’s growth mindset, so they can make the connection between hard work and improvement.