All Articles by Brooke de Lench

Talking to Your Child's Coach: Advice for Volleyball Moms and Dads

If the world were a perfect place, talking to your child's volleyball coach would be as natural and stress free as talking to your child's teacher. Unfortunately, there is not much that worries and confuses youth sports parents more than talking to their child's coach.
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Talking to Your Child's Coach: Advice for Field Hockey Moms and Dads

If the world were a perfect place, talking to your daughter's field hockey coach would be as natural and stress free as talking to your child's teacher. Unfortunately, there is not much that worries and confuses youth sports parents more than talking to their child's coach.
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Talking to the Coach: Advice for Soccer Moms and Dads

If the world were a perfect place, talking to their child's occer coach would be as natural and stress free for a soccer mom or dad as talking to their child's teacher. Unfortunately, there is not much that worries and confuses soccer moms more than talking to their child's coach.
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Talking to Your Child's Coach: Advice for Hockey Moms and Dads

If the world were a perfect place, talking to a youth hockey coach would be as natural and stress free for a hockey mom as talking to her child's teacher. Unfortunately, there is not much that worries and confuses hockey moms more than talking to their child's coach.
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Starting a New Youth Sports Club

As with team sports, success in starting a new youth sports program takes teamwork, determination and a willingness to do one's best to reach a common goal.
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What Does a Team Mom Do?

From handing out schedules, setting up the snack and drink schedule, and sending out e-mails, to keeping player rosters and statistics, and organizing team parties and buying end-of-season gifts for the coaches, team moms are critical to a successful youth sports season.
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Using Intuition Key To Sports Parenting Success

Are you trying to decide whether and when to let your child start playing sports , try out for a competitive travel team or begin specializing in a single sport? Are you considering pulling your child off a team because you sense tjhat your child is at risk of emotional or sexual abuse by the coach? My advice is to trust your intuition.
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Brooke de Lench
Brooke de Lench

Three Strikes, You're Out!

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 20:44. | comments

Stories of embezzlement of funds from youth sports organizations appear in the media on a regular basis, but the latest story really takes the cake.  What is remarkable about it isn't that the person accused of embezzlement was the former president of a youth baseball or how much money he allegedly took ($16,000), but

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Background Check Disclosed Little League President Charged With Embezzlement Had Embezzled Before

Stories of embezzlement of funds from youth sports organizations appear in the media on a regular basis. but the latest story really takes the cake. 
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Brooke de Lench
Brooke de Lench

Sports Team Tryouts: The Controversy Over Cutting

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 12:25. | comments

Thirteen years ago, on their first day of their first year of middle school, my triplet sons each received a thick green booklet packed with school rules and policies, and survival tips for incoming sixth graders .  Parents were provided with a copy of the same booklet.

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