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Gold Medal Parents: Little League Players need Big League Parenting!
So you believe your child will be the next big thing in the Big Leagues?
So you think it is inevitable that your son will win an Olympic Gold Medal one day?
So you are a 100% certain that your little girl will be the next Nadia Commenici?
Gold Medal kids need Gold Medal parents.
Little Leaguers who aspire to the Big Leagues need Big League Parenting.
Are you up to the challenge?
November 7, 2008 | 2 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Rowing, Rugby, Rugby League, Soccer, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon
Hello Tennis Parents - balancing love and 40-love
Hello Tennis Parents.
Put your hand up if you answer “YES” to two or more questions in the Tennis Parents Ten Question Quiz:
- Do you believe your child will be a successful, well paid professional tennis player?
- Do you tell other parents that your child is “a high achiever”?
- Do you talk about tennis at least once a day with your child over meals or away from the court?
- Are you prepared to sacrifice your child’s education so they have a great chance of becoming a professional player?
- Do you regularly ask the coach to work your child harder or to change something about their game?
- Do you get emotionally involved in your child’s successes and failures on the training court?
- Do you allow your child to show a bad attitude, poor sportsmanship and / or a poor temperament (e.g. racket abuse)?
- Have you ever argued or fought with parents of other kids about the results of a game?
- Do you refer to your child as “my son or my daughter the tennis player”?
- Have you spent more than $500.00 on a single tennis racket for your child?
Well, here’s the bad news. If you answered “YES” to two or more of the above, the chances of your child becoming a successful professional tennis player are…………………NIL or very close to it.
And what’s worse - you may be the major cause of their failure.
Swimming and School: Making it Cool
You know the drill.
Alarm goes off at 5 am. You get up. You eat. You go to the pool. You swim.
You got to school all day then…
You eat. You go to the pool. You swim.
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December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Swimming
The Role of Parents in Sport
Discussions with Coaches Geoff Marsh (Cricket), Joyce Brown (Netball) and Lindsay Gaze (Basketball).
In response to repeated community complaints, a Sydney Council announced it planned to introduce the following policy:
City of Botany, Code of Conduct, Sports Field Users.
“At it’s meeting of 26th May 1999, Council endorsed the following policy direction as outlined in the Mayoral Minutes No 5/99 and resolved:
That: “Council as a matter of policy, determine that any sporting activity being run by an Association or Club, on any ground within the City of Botany Bay, have lodged with Council, as a condition of use of Council’s playing fields, a Code of Conduct, which is to be subject to Council’s approval”. Read more
November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Helping Your Child Achieve in Sport - Fifty Things You Can Do
Fifty tips for parents of young athletes, to help them get the most out of their chosen sport.
November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Tags: AFL, Athletics, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Football, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
An Open Letter to Every Swimming Parent in the World
Dear Swimming Parent,
Firstly let me thank you for being a swimming parent.
Without you, we have no sport. There is no swimming without you. Clubs and coaches could not exist without your support.
I appreciate everything you do. The early mornings, the late afternoons, the rush to get dinner ready at night for hungry, tired kids, the long weekends of time keeping and team support. For everything you do, I thank you.
November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
High and Tri: Balancing High School and Triathlon Training
One of the toughest assignments for all athletes is the balance between sport and study.
Triathletes and athletes generally are by their nature high achievers. They live in a world of time management, goal setting, overcoming adversity, facing personal challenges and self-management.
However, for a short time (between the ages of 16-18), the pressures of being a high achiever present a tough challenge for even for the most committed and well - organised triathlete.
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November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment
