Raising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #9-Fear of Failure (Part I)
Episode #9: Fear of Failure (Part I) of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the third of seven in a series that examines obstacles that can prevent athletes from performing their best and enjoying their sports experiences. This episode is the first of two parts that explores the powerfully negative impact of fear of failure on […]
Read MoreRaising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode#8: Perfection to Excellence
Episode #8: Perfection to Excellence of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the second of seven in a series that examines obstacles that can prevent athletes from performing their best and enjoying their sports experiences. Importantly, this series will consider ways in which parents hold these unhealthy attitudes and instill them in their children. This […]
Read MoreRaising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode#7-Overinvestment
Episode #7 of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the first of seven in a series that examines obstacles that can prevent athletes from performing their best and enjoying their sports experiences. Importantly, this series will consider ways in which parents hold these unhealthy attitudes and instill them in their children. Also, importantly, what parents […]
Read MoreRaising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #6-Perspective
Episode #6: Perspective of my Raising Young Athletes podcast explores the influence of perspective on how you as sport parents and your young athletes perceive, feel about, and react to their sports experiences. When I talk about perspective, I mean lens through you and your young children look at their sports involvement in terms of […]
Read MoreRaising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #5-Ownership
Episode #5: Ownership of my Raising Young Athletes podcast examines the powerful impact that ownership has your children’s enjoyment, performance, and success in their sports lives. Ownership means that they participate because they are doing entirely for themselves, love their sport, and have goals they want to achieve, rather than because of their parents’ goals […]
Read MoreRaising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #4: Self-esteem
Episode #4: Self-esteem of my Raising Young Athletes podcast explores how self-esteem impacts young athletes’ athletic and personal development. Self-esteem involves how children come to perceive and value themselves, in other words, do they see themselves worthwhile people deserving of love and respect. Self-esteem influences happiness, well-being, goals, and success, among many other outcomes. This […]
Read MoreRaising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #3-Athletic Identity
Episode #3: Self-identity of my Raising Young Athletes podcast explores how the role that athletic identity plays in the development of children’s overall self-identity. Topics to be discussed include early specialization, values, the pressure parents feel to “keep up with the Jones,” balance, and the struggles parents have to take the good road for their […]
Read MoreRaising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #2-Values in Youth Sports
Episode #2: Values in Youth Sports of my Raising Young Athletes podcast explores the importance of values in your children’s sports experience. I consider why why values have such an impact, the presence of healthy and unhealthy values in youth sports, how kids learn values, and how parents can ensure that their children develop only […]
Read MoreRaising Young Athletes Podcast: Episode #1-The Power of Sport Parents
In Episode #1 of his Raising Young Athletes podcast, Dr. Jim Taylor discusses The Power of Sport Parents.
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