Youth Sports & Coaching
Half of youth sports advice is about technique. The other half should be about everything that happens in the kid’s head before the technique gets a chance to matter. The articles here are from the bench, the rink, and the sidelines, written by a parent and coach about the parts of youth sports that nobody warns you about. Why kids give up on hard things. How perseverance actually develops (it’s not what most coaches say). What the four principles of grit look like in a real ten-year-old. How to handle the car ride home after a tough game without burning the next ten seasons. Practical, honest, stripped of the motivational-poster language.
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