My son’s travel team coach wants the team to wear their jerseys to school. Is this appropriate?
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Why Can’t My Child Be Team Captain?
My ten-year-old daughter does not understand why she hasn’t been named team captain in the past four seasons.
The Double Edge of Play
Play is critical to a well-balanced childhood, and in our technological age, when the time and space to play are shrinking dramatically both at school and at home, there is, thankfully, a growing awareness of its role in a child’s development.
How to Avoid Creating Entitlement Monsters—Bullying, Trash Talk, Elitism, and Other Assorted Sports Ills
Do sports have to be this way? We want our kids to become more human as they grow older, not less. We want them to discover their own humanity during social interactions, through activities like sports.
Is It Harmful for My Child to See So Much Sports Violence on Television?
What can I do about the alarming things my kids see while watching sports on television? The brutal one-on-one fights in NHL games. The baseball brawls. All the taunting and bad sportsmanship on display.
Is There Value to Free Play?
My gut tells me that unstructured and semistructured play is an important part of my kid’s growing up. The years go by so quickly!
A Team Pulls Together
The bottom line: These girls had missed the game-playing stage of play development because of their intense involvement in youth sports from an early age.
Do Girls and Boys Play Differently?
Whether its girls being mean or boys getting carried away, children need to be guided back into a more positive mode of play. We take care not to normalize antisocial play through parental inaction.
The Power of Play, Part 2
One reason why is that parents are struggling to overcome their fears. Child safety is foremost in our minds, and mostly with good reason. Many neighborhoods are unsafe.
The Power of Play, Part 1
It’s Levy’s biggest challenge: to force her hyper-trained, over-taught players to think on their feet, to play creatively. She spends hours designing and redesigning her practices to address this deficiency head-on.