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  • Nine Ways to Balance Sports and Family Life

    If you feel like sports are taking too much of your and family's time and money, if your child is feeling stressed, it is time to restore some sanity by finding a better balance. Creating balance in child's life is important because, if you don't, you send your child the message that unstructured, un-pressured free time, fun for fun's sake and family time aren't important.

    Here are some tips on finding balance.

    1. Have the courage to say no.

    2. Balance sports and family life.

    3. Set limits that fit your family.

    4. Look for balanced sports programs.

    5. Find a balance between sports.

    6. Balance sports and academics.

    7. Allow for a social life outside of sports.

    8. Make sure your child gets enough sleep.

    9. Provide for unstructured free time.

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Successul Sports Parenting Starts With the Basics

So, your kid is about to turn 5 and wants to play sports. You are about to embark on a journey into a strange new world, to boldly go where, to paraphrase Captain Kirk in the introduction to Star Trek, no parent has gone before. Wait a second. That's not true. You are going where millions and millions of parents have gone before!

What you need to take along in your jouney are the sports parenting basics, the information that every parent should know about: things like child development, how to set realistic expectations for your child, how parenting a male athlete is different from parenting a female athlete, how to keep sports fun so as to minimize the risk that your child will burn out and quit sports, what to do if your child is an early or a late bloomer.

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