All About "kids" and "sports"
Valentine's Day for Wee Ones
Wear your heart on your sleeve! Find creative ways to show your love and help your child celebrate Valentine's Day.
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Parents on the Field: Volunteering
Your Time in Team Sports
The duties of the team parent include ordering trophies, making arrangements for team photos, scheduling drinks and snacks for the games, delivering messages about postponed or canceled games or practices and organizing the end-of-season party.
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One-Sport Wonders: Should Your Child
Specialize in a Single Sport?
The child should always take the lead in deciding whether or not to specialize in one sport. "If a child is passionate about one sport, that's fine," says Ron Quinn, associate professor of education at Xavier University and director of sports studies. But a child should not be forced to pick a sport.
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Good Sports: Helping Young
Athletes Keep Fun in the Game
According to Joel Fish, Ph.D., author of 101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent and director of Philadelphia's Center for Sport Psychology, parents are a determining factor in whether kids enjoy team sports. "If children sense that their parents love them and are proud of them whether they hit the ball or not," says Fish, "then they'll be better equipped to handle all the ups and downs that come with competitive sports."
Read MoreFighting Form: The Martial Arts Experience
Although martial arts are hugely popular with kids--some 1.4 million now take lessons--much of what goes on inside those storefront karate academies remains, for many parents, a mystery. Will you have to register your child's hands as deadly weapons? Will he be indoctrinated into some mystical Eastern cult?
Read MoreT-Ball Time! A Field of Dreams for the Whole Family
With a focus on skills and sportsmanship (for players and parents), T-ball leagues are home to "fields of dreams" all over the country.
Read MoreRaising Good Sports
I suppose all this should have been a sign that my sons were going to have an unusual relationship with sports. Indeed, we soon discovered hat Paul's special baseball skill was something he did off the field.
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In the Swing of Things:
Introducing Your Child to Golf
Instructors and pros alike agree that parents can introduce a child to golf as young as 4 or 5 years old, but beginning in the preteen years yields good results as well.
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