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Make Outdoor Time Childhood Health Priority, Surgeon General Urged

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), more than 200 health, conservation, youth, and other organizations, and 16,300 Americans are urging the new surgeon general, Dr. Regina Benjamin, to make time outdoors a childhood health priority and to promote the benefits to children who engage in regular unstructured outdoor play in their backyards, at local parks, or any green space that offers the opportunity to connect with nature.  NWF is urging parents to take the 2010 Be Out There pledge to spend more time outdoors this year.
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Sports Moms: Staying Organized Is Key

Parents these days need to choreograph their lives to the split second. We try to keep track of our busy lives, and those of our kids, by any and all means possible. Just getting our kids to all their activities can be exhausting to think about, unless you learn how to organize, prioritize and plan ahead.
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Hypercompetitive Youth Sports: Explained by Gender Differences?

Today's hypercompetitive, highly structured world of youth sports may be explained by evolutionary biology and hormones.
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Brooke de Lench
Brooke de Lench

Youth Sports Politics: Adults Feud, Children Suffer

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 21:27. | comments

An article in the Boston Globe, last year,  titled  "Taking the ‘little' out of Little League" reminds us not only about what is wrong in today's youth sports, but how needed reform can occur. 

I wrote this blog in 2010 but the issue continues to come up, questions are asked and think this may help. 

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Sports Parents: Your Support Makes All the Difference

Some day your child's athletic career will end.  When it does, rather than remembering the great plays they made, the games won, or the moments of excellence, they will hopefully remember that you were there to support them every step of the way.
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Youth Sports Survival Tips: Make Lists, Keep Calendar

To stay organized and survive the youth sports rat race without having a nervous breakdown make lists and keep a calendar, says veteran sports mom, Pamela Carey.
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Sports Injuries: Treat The Whole Person, Study Says

The benefits of sports for adolescent boys and girls are well known. Less understood are the short- and long-term effects of sports injuries on a teen athlete's psychological and social life. A new study in the Journal of Athletic Training provides some clues and advocates a whole person approach to injury management.

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Surviving the Holidays with Kids' Schedules

Submitted by Minor League Mom on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 03:52. | comments

I remember the days when I owned my own business and was trying to get our two sons to practices and games on time with knots in my stomach.  Then the holidays hit.  How to survive without a nervous breakdown?

I remember the days when I owned my own business and was trying to get our two sons to practices and games on time with knots in my stomach. Then the holidays hit. How to survive without a nervous breakdown?

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Erin Mirabella
Erin Mirabella

Raising Confident Kids Through Sports.

Submitted by Erin Mirabella on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 07:45. | comments

Try This At Home………………

Take a glass jar and at least thirty colored strips of paper.  On each strip of paper have your child write down one thing that he or she likes about his or herself or does well.  Fill the jar with the strips and have them put the jar someplace they will see it everyday.  The next time your child is feeling down or is lacking confidence, have he or she read through all of the papers in the jar and remember how blessed and loved he or she is.  You can always have your child add five or ten more strips to the jar for good measure.

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