Kids sports psychology articles for sports parents, young athletes, and team coaches to improve mental game performance and consistency.
How to Keep Sports Kids Motivated For Cami Hawkins, CEO of Marathon Kids, an organization that provides resources for schools to start running clubs, motivating kids is all about setting small goals and celebrating success. In an Ultimate Sports Parent podcast interview, Hawkins described how the organization’s coaches set goals … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Use Mental Imagery to Boost Performance Mental imagery is a useful mental game skill that can improve young athletes’ performance. Many athletes have experienced success using visualization daily in their training regimes. Athletes say that visualization boosts confidence, improves focus, creates poise under pressure, improves consistency and makes … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Move on After Mistakes Many sports kids feel that achieving peak performance means that they must have a perfect performance or game. However, this mindset can hurt kids’ mental game and performance. These kids tend to have a hard time moving on after making mistakes, so they get … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Anxiety in Young Athletes Young athletes will often say they’re so anxious they feel sick to their stomach before a game or competition. Some sports kids can’t shake this anxiety as a season progresses and they get used to performing in games. While pregame jitters are normal and natural for … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Support Your Sports Kid In my work as a mental game coach, I often focus on the mental training challenges of athlete, coach, or team. However, many mental game experts leave out a very important group — sports parents. Parents are critical to an athlete’s mental game development … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Dealing with Coaches Who Play Favorites Sports parents can easily become upset with coaches who play favorites. When this happens, parents face a dilemma: Should they approach coaches about their athletes’ lack of playing time and risk making matters worse? Your first step is to confirm your beliefs about a … Read Sport Psychology Tip