Helping Kids Set Healthy Boundaries
“No” used to mean no. Nowadays it’s more of a suggestion or an invitation to negotiate just how hard you will work to change my mind. But what if the answer needs to be no? What if the right response is no, but I know you really want me to say yes? What if danger […]
Young Athlete Says the Key to a Good Coach is…”He doesn’t yell.”
I met a lacrosse player yesterday who was aching to be released from physical therapy and get back on the field. This is his senior year in high school and college coaches have shown an interest in him. I ask him how he likes his coach. “He’s okay,” the kid says, but his frown tells me otherwise. […]
How to Get Girls to Communicate on the Field
Do the girls you coach clam up on the field? Mine talk all the time…on the sidelines and during warmups. But on the field? It’s like pulling teeth. In a newsletter I read recently, a fifteen-year-old observed that girls were happy to pitch in on impersonal, non-relational topics but were sometimes reluctant to disagree with another girl […]
