- Author & Speaker Says: Let's Use Common Sense When Managing Youth Sports!
Today’s parents tend to over-think kid-sports, complicating nearly every aspect of them. Most good parenting, and by extension, good coaching springs from common sense, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, radio and TV commentator, and best-selling author of 12 books, including 101 THINGS PARENTS SHOULD KNOW BEFORE VOLUNTEERING TO COACH THEIR KIDS’ SPORTS TEAMS (Contemporary/McGraw-Hill). - Hey Mom, I'm RICH!
He’s a sixteen year old high school Junior, attending two different summer sessions, and yet he has energy to burn, so his mom arranged for him to apply as a part-time bus boy at a local restaurant. - How Alarmists Are Ruining Kid-Sports
In "Silent Spring," Rachel Carson penned what turned out to be the book that launched the environmental movement, an expose about the perils of the chemical, DDT.If some alarmists have their way, especially those that are focusing on kids sports, we might face a different sort of silent spring.Instead of hearing parents and pals cheering from the sidelines, young athletes will play their games in utter quietude, occasionally punctuated by an official's whistle.There will be no cries of joy, or banter of encouragement, or even audible gasps or sighs from the stands. Instead, there will be a polite pantomime of near-applause when children perform with distinction.Like the famous scene at the Ascot races in "My Fair Lady," Eliza Doolittle will be the only one robustly shouting encouragement to the jockeys while the staid gentry look on in horror, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, Fortune 1000 consultant, and best-selling author of 12 books, including 101 THINGS PARENTS SHOULD KNOW BEFORE VOLUNTEERING TO COACH THEIR KIDS' SPORTS TEAMS, published by Contemporary/McGraw-Hill. - Parents: Would You Rather Raise a Happy Failure or an Unhappy Success?
I know a teenager whose parents plucked him out of a school where we was incessantly cutting classes and earning bad grades.They moved to a nicer neighborhood with better schools and enrolled him there.He's not cutting nearly as many classes, he likes his schoolmates, but he's still barely scraping by when it comes to grades.He went from being an unhappy failure to a happy one.I kid you not: He has much stronger self-esteem in his new digs, but his scholastic performance has barely improved.His parents don't quite know how to feel right now.They should actually celebrate, because matter could be worse, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, radio and TV commenttaor, and best-selling author of 12 books, including 101 THINGS PARENTS SHOULD KNOW BEFORE VOLUNTEERING TO COACH THEIR KIDS' SPORTS TEAMS (contemporary/McGraw-Hill). - Top Speaker & Author Says: Sports Administrators Should Retire When Their Kids Leave The League
If you thought former Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager, the Harvard trained Paul DiPodesta, was a geek, look no farther than to your local kids sports leagues and you’ll find people we used to call, “The Paste Eaters,” running nearly every one. - With Teens, Make Sure to Distinguish Temporary from Permanent Understandings
Teenagers are like those trapped wolves you hear about who look a lot like tame-able dogs, but the second they’re in captivity, they do everything to break free, including the unthinkable: chewing off their feet to emerge from the traps that you so carefully laid for them.They’re wild at heart, to borrow the title from a memorable movie from a decade or two ago.One of the sanest things we can do is to distinguish temporary from permanent understandings with them, according to top speaker, best-selling author, and popular radio and TV commentator.
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