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Jeff Nelligan says he attended about 2,300 of his three sons’ games over 22 years. Here are some lessons he shares with other youth sports parents.
After three kids' and 20 years' worth of youth sports, columnist Mary McNamara reflects on the real reason parents yell at the refs and other lessons she's learned along the way.
Francoeur's father, David, was an educator in Cobb County (Ga.) school system and viewed his youngest son not as a big-league prospect but “a goofy 13-year-old kid playing sports.”
The show features ten parent/child pairings, with each pair working together as a team to further the child's career. The parents and children live together in one house. Week to week, the teams work on various performance-related challenges. The show consists of eight episodes, with one team sent home at the end of each episode. The team that ...
From the director of the film Bigger, Stronger, Faster* comes an intense look at the overbearing parents in sports. The film asks the question "Do we want what's best for our children? Or do we just want them to be the best?" Parts of this film were used in the premier of Peter Berg's HBO series State of Play. [2] [3]
More African-American and Hispanic parents feel schools and communities are failing their daughters. Also boys in immigrant families are more than likely to play sports than girls to play sports. Nearly a quarter (23%) of children have at least one parent born outside the United States.
9. Use one-sided games as an opportunity to get better. I have experienced both sides of blowouts as a coach. In one sixth-grade basketball league, we weren’t allowed to win by more than 40 ...
The distribution of births according to month in the general population. The term relative age effect (RAE), also known as birthdate effect or birth date effect, is used to describe a bias, evident in the upper echelons of youth sport [1] and academia, [2] where participation is higher amongst those born earlier in the relevant selection period (and lower for those born later in the selection ...