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Kids and Sports
Learn how playing sports like soccer, golf, basketball, football, and baseball can keep your kids healthy and fit and help them learn valuable life lessons.
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Girls Need Sports Too!
Have you ever wondered why girls drop out of sports by the truckload once they reach high school? The drop out rate is seven times greater than that of boys.
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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.
Read MoreSo-Long Summer Party
It's been called the second shift: that action-packed period when school lets out, or — if you work outside the home — the official workday is over. While the rest of the family is changing gears, you are kicking it...
Read MoreAge-By-Age Toy Buying Guide
Based on child development research, the following guide will help in your selection of toys for various age groups. Some playthings are recommended for more than one age category, as children of different ages often enjoy the same toy, each playing with it at his or her own level.
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