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Brother-sister team Dr. Patrick Cohn and Lisa E. Cohn share youth sports psychology articles, mental training videos, and youth sports psychology expert interviews on many topics for sports parents and young athletes.
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Learn how to boost athletes’ confidence, composure, and trust with kids’ sports psychology articles. Written by Lisa Cohn, an award-winning parenting writer…
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Listen to youth sports experts discuss topics from bullying to boosting confidence in young athletes. Learn from other parents and coaching with The Ultimate Sports Parent Radio Show…
Articles for Sports Parents & Coaches
Self-Criticism In Youth Athletes
How to Help Your Athlete Stop Tearing Themselves Down and Play Their Game Are your sports kids critical of themselves? After every mistake or bad game, do they put themselves down? When kids criticize themselves excessively, they experience…
Why Athletes Quit Sports
In this sports psychology video, you learn athletes quit sports and the right and wrong reasons to quit… Here’s the question of the week: “I’m playing soccer and I’m thinking about quitting because I am literally the worst…
Comparison’s Impact on Athletes Confidence
Young athletes Commonly Struggle with Comparison “My son is very tentative when playing basketball. He always has his eye on what others are doing—his teammates and his opponents. How can we help him play with more confidence?” This…
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Helping Kids Choose Sports
Letting Kids Decide What Sports They Want to Play What are the Habits of Supportive Sports Parents? To be a supportive sports parent, you first have to ensure your kids are having fun. Second, you should help ensure…
How Emotions Affect Sports Kids
Feelings Can be Contagious in Youth Sports Athletes can pick up on others’ feelings–often negative–in youth sports. In fact, feelings can snowball from one player to another, either lifting the team up emotionally or dragging it down. That’s…
Improve Sports Kids’ Mental Toughness
Helping Young Athletes Boost Resilience Resilience is an important trait for all athletes in sports. It helps them bounce back after losses, injuries and other types of adversity, says psychologist and former sports mom Kathryn Den Houter, author…
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Teach Sports Kids To Focus on What They Can Control
How to Control What is Controllable Do your sports kids worry too much before and during competitions? When they worry, they’re often trying to control issues related to performance that are outside of their direct control. These issues…
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Play Confidently to Win
Help Your Athletes Close out Competitions Are your sports kids confident in their ability to close out games? Or do they get scared and play sloppily when their team is ahead? Whether your kids play soccer, football, hockey…
Learn cutting edge strategies to improve young athletes mental game and confidence for sports and life…