11 01, 2024

Are Your Expectations Helping or Hurting Your Young Ski Racer?

By | January 11th, 2024|Categories: Ski Racing, Sports|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Setting expectations for your children is an essential responsibility of being a ski racing parent. Expectations communicate messages to your children about what’s important to you and establish a standard toward which they can strive. But expectations can be double-edged swords. They can be a tremendous benefit to your children’s ski racing and personal development, [...]

18 09, 2023

How NOT to be a Bad Ski Racing Parent

By | September 18th, 2023|Categories: Ski Racing|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

In my last ski racing post, I shared with you recommendations on how to be the best ski racing parent you can be during the upcoming race season. In general, I much prefer to focus on the positives of behavior and, in that article, emphasized what you can do to help your ski-racing children have a great [...]

9 04, 2021

Taylor Interview for Youth Sports Podcast

By | April 9th, 2021|Categories: Sports|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

I was recently interviewed by Rianna Poskin of The Youth Sports Podcast. Rianna with Dr. Jim Taylor on Toxicity in Youth Sport, Sport Psychology and Youth Sport Success April 8, 2021 "We want mental wellness, not mental hell-ness!" - Dr. Taylor This episode on The Youth Sport Podcast was great in so many ways. The [...]

22 10, 2020

Raising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #28-Do with Your Children

By | October 22nd, 2020|Categories: Raising Young Athletes (Podcast)|Tags: , |0 Comments

Episode #28: Do with Your Children of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the fourth of five episodes in which I’m exploring the Dos and Don’ts of Sport Parenting, in other words, what sport parents should and shouldn’t do with themselves, other parents, coaches, and their children.  What you do with, for, and to your [...]

13 10, 2020

Overcoming Fear of Failure-Part IV

By | October 13th, 2020|Categories: Parenting, Ski Racing, Sports|Tags: , , , , |2 Comments

This article is my fourth (and, I think, final) in a series exploring Fear of Failure in ski racing. If you missed the first three articles, you may want to catch up before reading this article (Part I, II, III). In those first three articles, I examined my evolving perspective on fear of failure and [...]

6 10, 2020

Raising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #27-Do with Coaches

By | October 6th, 2020|Categories: Raising Young Athletes (Podcast)|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Episode #27: Do with Coaches of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the third of five episodes in which I’m exploring the Dos and Don’ts of Sport Parenting, in other words, what sport parents should and shouldn’t do with themselves, other parents, coaches, and their children.  The coaches of your young athletes have a huge [...]

20 08, 2020

Raising Young Athletes: Episode #25-Dos for Yourself

By | August 20th, 2020|Categories: Raising Young Athletes (Podcast)|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Episode #25: Do for Yourself of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the first of five episodes in which I’m exploring the Dos and Don’ts of Sport Parenting, in other words, what sport parents should and shouldn’t do with themselves, other parents, coaches, and their children. The topic of today’s podcast is: Dos for Yourself. [...]

30 07, 2020

Raising Young Athletes: Episode #24-5 Rules of Messaging

By | July 30th, 2020|Categories: Raising Young Athletes (Podcast)|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Episode #24:  5 Rules of Messaging of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the last of five episodes in which I explore the importance of messages in raising healthy young athletes and people. This episode introduces you to my five rules of messaging that will maximize the power of the messages you send your children [...]

9 07, 2020

Raising Young Athletes: Episode #23-Message Blockers

By | July 9th, 2020|Categories: Raising Young Athletes (Podcast)|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Episode #23: Message Blockers of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the fourth of five episodes in which I explore the importance of messages in raising healthy young athletes and people. This episode introduces you to nine "message blockers" that can prevent your healthy messages from getting through to your young athletes. Being aware of [...]

22 05, 2020

Raising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #22-Message Conduits

By | May 22nd, 2020|Categories: Raising Young Athletes (Podcast)|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Episode #22: Message Conduits of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the third of five episodes in which I explore the importance of messages in raising healthy young athletes and people. This episode  introduces you to five "message conduits," that is, the different ways in which you can send messages to your children related to their [...]