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everything baseball with jack perconte

Everything Baseball with Jack Perconte

Sports Parent’s Rules to Develop Character [Printable]

Sports Parent's Rules for Athletes Nowadays, nothing having to do with youth sports is easy as it was many years ago. Believe it or not, there was a time when parents would send their kids off to practices and games without it being a big deal. At least, that is how I remember it when I grew up. Today, drama seems to surround the youth sports scene. I guess it is understandable with the big business that youth sports now entail. Money seems to change things and usually not for the better. Parents have to step up and help their kids learn right from wrong in this environment. If they do not, there is a good chance kids will not learn the … [Read more...]

Sports Parents Guide [Don’t’ let your kids get away with these]

Sports Parents Guide - Don't Worry, you can still be a positive parent This sports parents guide suggests you can still be a positive coach and parent and teach life lessons along the way. It seems as though positive parenting and positive coaching get a bad rap these days. People assume it means nothing but praising kids and attempting to build up their self-esteem all the time. That is not what it means, at least to me. Positive parenting and positive coaching are about helping kids learn to look at life in a healthy way and to help them mature into productive adults. Yes, positive means an upbeat, optimistic attitude, but that … [Read more...]

Help Your Child Make the High School Team [Weekly Tips to Print]

Parent tips to help your child make the high school team This infographic offers parent some helpful advice to help your child make the high school team. Of course, there is no substitute for talent and coaches will recognize the players with it immediately. No matter the sport, other things come into play when kids tryout for the high school team besides talent. I have even seen many solid players not make a team for failing to observe one or more of the tips in this infographic. I remember one very talented kids who did not make the high school team because he failed to help pick up baseballs at the end of practice. Something that seems … [Read more...]

Proper Youth Sports Perspective [Weekly Parent Tips]

Keeping the Right Youth Sports Perspective Most adults and I would dare to say almost all of them get involved in the youth sports scene with nothing but good intentions. Most would think it unfathomable that they would act in an untoward way over such petty things as a sports game involving young kids.   From the outside and when it is another person's son or daughter, it is easy to maintain the right youth sports perspective. However, things change quickly because it is "their" child involved.  When unfortunate things occur to their own, behavior often turns into formerly unbelievable, if not regrettable, behavior. Suddenly, when a coach, … [Read more...]