Conversations with Kids: Sports Parents – Helping Your Child Adapt To Change 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 …
Conversations with Kids: Building Grit and Determination 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 Have you ever given up on …
Developing Mental Toughness in Young Athletes: Coaching Lessons from Ultra Running With Pierce Showe When you’re coaching young adult athletes aged 17–21+, the line between talent and toughness often defines who thrives under pressure and who fades when challenges hit. In a recent episode of the Demystifying Mental Toughness Podcast, David speaks with Pierce Showe …
Running for Good The Fiona Oakes Story Mindset Lessons for Young Athletes When it comes to redefining mental toughness, few stories capture it like Running for Good: The Fiona Oakes Story. This inspiring Amazon documentary follows ultra runner Fiona Oakes, a world record-breaking endurance athlete and vegan advocate, as she takes on one of the …
Conversations with Kids: Teaching Young Athletes to Channel Their Competitive Fire 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 Have …
Emotional Control in Youth Sport: How Coaches Can Help Young Adult Athletes Thrive With Matt Young Emotional control is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in coaching and sport psychology. But for coaches working with athletes aged 17 years old +, it’s far more than a buzzword, it’s the difference between an athlete …
How to Take Control of Your Emotions: Building Your Personal Playbook for Confidence and Calm Matt Young – Anxiety and Fear Coach Matt Young’s journey began as a professional footballer, where eight years in the game exposed him to the intensity, pressure, and emotional highs and lows of elite sport. Over the past 15+ years, …
Managing Anger and Aggression in Young Athletes A Coach’s Guide to Violence Prevention When a talented 21-year-old striker receives a provocative challenge during a crucial match, their response in that split-second can define not just the game’s outcome, but potentially their entire sporting career. John H. Kerr’s compelling examination of anger-based aggression in sport, published …
Conversations with Kids – Emotional Control in Sport 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 Have you ever felt upset …
Book Review: Your Highly Sensitive Child – Dr Aoife Durcan Ideas for Sporting Parents Sport can be an emotional rollercoaster for children, the thrill of scoring, the sting of missing, the pressure of being watched. Some youngsters however seem to experience all of this more intensely. They might cry after a mistake, withdraw after criticism, …