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Youth sports and running as punishment

Posted: Mar 29th 2008 10:00AM by Kristen Seymour
Filed under: Fitness, Healthy Kids

I remember viewing forced exercise as punishment well into high school. I never ran for fun. I ran because I was late for practice, or because we hadn't played well the night before.

Having coached youth sports, I understand the need to have some sort of punishment, and it's totally logical that the punishment be something that will also benefit the players. However, it's also important that the kids realize that's why you've chosen this consequence.

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Are you a 'good sport' at being a parent?

Posted: Jul 9th 2007 5:12PM by Brian White
Filed under: Emotional Health, Healthy Kids

Ever been to a little-league game or gymnastics event where a parent goes ballistic for some reason? From kids being benched to young athletes making mistakes, there are many cases of parents berating coaches, other parents or even their own kids at public events.

What a good example to set, right? These parents are at a sporting event being incredibly bad sports. Sure -- mistakes are make and sometimes politics (for whatever reason) are cause to make some parents mad. Behaving like children, though, is not the answer.

No child is perfect and some are athletically more gifted than others, for a variety of reasons. If that daughter misses a pop fly or that son gets tagged out at home base, just don't lose it. Life goes on, and being a good sport and example goes a long way than the insignificant extra point lost due to a mistake.



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