Life Lessons
The Mental Game: Developing a Strong Mindset for Sport and in Life
Your mind can make or break you. You will often face many experiences of intense pressure, competition, and numerous challenges on the field and in life. Since they are all [...]
Why Coaches and Parents Should Avoid Placing Too Much Emphasis on Team and Individual Results
Fall season playoff time can be intense, hyper-competitive, exhilarating or heartbreaking. These moments are great opportunities to focus on teachable moments. Whether your team dominates a rival or is on [...]
Why You Want Your Kids To Lose
Some might argue that learning to lose is actually the point of youth sports. My daughter’s soccer team trudged slowly off the field, sweaty and exhausted. They had been outmatched [...]
Change Your Life Today With Success Loops
Ever succumb to the same challenge over and over again and wonder why? It is probably because you followed the same mental patterns when dealing with the failure. If this [...]
15 Games Every American Kid Should Play
Let the kids play. Modern children are over-scheduled and overprotected, leaving them little time for fun and games. Yet play is essential to raising happy, self-sufficient kids. I’m not talking [...]
20 Lessons for Female Athletes on Training and Life
This article originally appeared on EricaSuter.com Somewhere out there, there’s a female athlete getting yelled at by her coach for making a mistake. Somewhere out there, there’s a female athlete crying [...]
ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt Says America Has a ‘Giant Problem’ With How We’re Raising Our Kids
Michigan State head basketball coach Tom Izzo made waves recently when cameras captured him intensely coaching up freshman forward Aaron Henry during the first round of the 2019 NCAA Men’s [...]
How America Killed Play—and What We Can Do to Bring it Back
In our last piece from our interview with play expert Dr. Peter Gray, we outlined the five criteria of play. For an activity to truly be considered play, it must: [...]
What Counts as Play? 5 Criteria of the Most Vital Activity for Kids
Kids don't play nearly as much as they used to. This might sound odd to some, as many are confused by what actually constitutes “play.” Kids are still “playing” little [...]
Ohio High School Athletic Association Issues Letter to Parents Due to Rampant Ref Abuse
Earlier this month, we published an article where youth sports refs outlined some of the worst incidents they’ve had to endure with unhinged parents. Things have gotten so bad that [...]