Parenting/Technology: Developing Children’s Healthy Self-identity
Self-identity is one of the trickier contributors to children’s healthy development because you can’t “do” things to your children to give them their self-identity. Rather, you can only create an environment that allows their self-identity to evolve naturally. A part of the environment that supports the emergence of culture and media, that aim to stunt, […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Your First Days Back on Snow
Greetings from beautiful Loveland, Colorado, where the air is thin, snow is amazing (kudos to John Hale and his crew!), the nights are cold, and the days are warm and sunny (in other words, ideal conditions for early season skiing). I’m out here this week and again next week working with racers as they put […]
Read MoreHealth: The Scary Connection Between TV and Life Expectancy
I just read a sobering study that found that television watching, which is one indication of a sedentary lifestyle, has a significant negative impact on life expectancy. Read about the study here.
Read MoreParenting/Popular Culture/Technology: Are Media Creating a Generation of Narcissists?
The externalization of children’s self-identities caused by the omnipresence of popular culture and social media today, that I discussed in my last post, has resulted in an unhealthy internal focus on the self among young people these days. Do you recall the story of Narcissus? The handsome fellow in Greek mythology who, because of his […]
Read MoreParenting/Popular Culture/Technology: Is Facebook Creating a False Self in Your Children?
In my last post, I described how new media is causing the externalization of children’s self-identity. The result of this externalization may be your children developing a false self, in which they internalize the messages of popular culture and media, such as valuing themselves based on their wealth, appearance, or popularity, and those messages become […]
Read MoreSki Racing: “Money in the Bank, Baby!”: Final Prep for Race Season
It’s hard to believe that we are only weeks away from the start of any ski season. The snow guns are blasting in Colorado and I will be on snow with athletes in ten days. For some of you, I’m sure you’re excited to be able to snap into your skis again after being off […]
Read MoreParenting/Popular Culture: Media’s Externalization of Your Children’s Self-identity
“To all of Chris’ friends: This is his father. My son carelessly left his account logged in so I decided to snoop around. Upon reading my son’s personal information, I would like to clear a few things up. My son is not a ‘gangsta,’ he will not ‘beat a ho’s ass’ and he will most […]
Read MoreParenting/Popular Culture: The Disturbing Sexualization of REALLY Young Girls
Whenever I think popular culture, and the companies that control it for their own profiteering ends, has gone as low as it can go in its wanton disregard for basic decency in general and children in particular, it always seems to find a way to dig deeper within itself and discover new depths to plumb. […]
Read MoreSports: Young Athletes Forced to Choose Between Club and High School
I see this dilemma constantly in youth sports. Young athletes who aspire to be the best by playing on a club team, but also want to enjoy the competition of high school sports, must often choose one or the other. Is it fair? Is it necessary? Here’s a great article that describes the conundrum that […]
Read MoreSports/Business: Is Goal Setting Over-rated?
I’ve have found it to be so. Here’s an interesting take on goal setting:
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