March 9, 2020
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8 Week Character Development Coaching Program
If our goal is to deliberately expose our kids to Character Development coaching this season, then we need an actual plan. We can’t leave it to chance that our kids are going to understand the hidden life lessons youth sports teaches. Teamwork, work ethic, perseverance, sportsmanship… these are all multi-syllable words to kids without concrete […]
Continue readingOvercoming the Challenge of Letting Our Kids Go
All birds have to leave the nest or they will die. Our kids have to find their own lives too. They are going to leave. It’s not a matter of if they will leave. It’s a matter of when AND how well prepared will they be when they do. Letting our kids go is a challenge […]
Continue reading May 14, 2018
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#28 – Empowering Our Kids to Succeed
Who is Youth Sports For?Sometimes we forget one of the most important elements in youth sports – who everybody is working for. It’s not the coach, the Club President, mom or dad… it’s our future. It’s our future expressed by, shaped by, and executed by our children. I don’t mean to suggest that kids have the […]
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