Supporting children and young athletes across all stages from 7 to 21+ years requires a holistic approach. This category explores strategies to promote mental health, emotional resilience, and physical well-being in sport and life. Parents and coaches will find expert articles, podcasts, and resources on managing stress, building coping skills, improving sleep, handling pressure, and maintaining a healthy balance between sport, school, and social life. By integrating sports psychology principles, we help young athletes develop confidence, resilience, and long-term wellbeing while staying engaged and enjoying their sport.
Football Psychology Tips: My Son is Trialling at a Cat 1 Academy How do I Protect His Mental Health? A discussion we have with a lot of parents whose children are trialling at a Cat 1 Professional Football Club Academies is around protecting their child’s mental health? This is often the scenario where you’ve watched …
Conversations with Kids: When Goals Feel Like Pressure For parents and guardians where we give you prompts so that you can have more meaningful conversations with your children to help them build key characteristics such as mental toughness, resilience, confidence, creativity, focus and so on. A Questions for Your Kids When someone talks about your …
Conversations with Kids: Why Some Kids Believe They Can and Others Don’t For parents and guardians where we give you prompts so that you can have more meaningful conversations with your children to help them build key characteristics such as mental toughness, resilience, confidence, creativity, focus and so on. A Questions for Your Kids When …
Why 12–16 Is A Very Important Age for Mental Toughness Lessons From Doug Strycharczyk If you coach children aged 12–16, you’ll know something important: their skills are improving fast, but their minds can be over the place. One week they look confident, brave and creative. The next week they freeze, hide or panic under pressure. …
Words of Wisdom – Collective Insights on Mental Toughness David Charlton – Mental Toughness Practitioner By working with David Charlton, individuals, teams, and organisations become better equipped to meet the demands of modern sport and performance and to thrive both on and off the pitch, course, or court. David supports people to: Cope with pressure …
Book Review – ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success by Dr Josephine Perry ADHD has become increasingly recognised across the sporting world, with more young adult athletes stepping forward to explore how their attention differences influence their training, decision-making, performance, and well-being. Dr Josephine Perry’s ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success arrives at exactly the …
Conversations with Kids: For Sports Parents: Helping Young Athletes Take Ownership For parents and guardians where we give you prompts so that you can have more meaningful conversations with your children to help them build key characteristics such as mental toughness, resilience, confidence, creativity, focus and so on. A Question for your Kids When things …
Owning Your Journey: Personal Responsibility, Success Redefined & Thriving on Loan Peter Ramage – Assistant Loans Manager, Newcastle United Peter Ramage currently serves as Assistant Loans Manager at Newcastle United Football Club, drawing on 14 years of professional playing experience and UEFA A Licence coaching qualifications. His playing career included spells at Newcastle United, Crystal …
Run Your Race: Helping Young Athletes Avoid the Comparison Trap A Question for your Kids I’m sure as a parent you will have caught your child scrolling through social media, comparing themselves to teammates or athletes online? Maybe they’ve said things like, “I’ll never be as fast as them” or “They’re miles ahead of me.” …
Embracing Fear And The Dreaded Yips Trevor Jones is a PGA Professional Golfer and mental performance coach who works with golfers on increasing their psychological flexibility, allowing them to better step up to the challenges of learning and performance. He has studied and practiced the psychological flexibility model, behaviour analysis and relational frame theory for …