Anger Management In Youth Sports

As a sports parent or coach it’s your job to understand anger management. Anger erupts too often on the field and can carry over into aggressiveness at school and at home.

This comes direct from Joe Bouffard, Director of the Youth Football Coaches Association, a group that educates coaches about how to handle anger in youth sports.

First of all, coaches need to understand why kids get angry, he says, That means asking their athletes the right questions. Parents can help with this process by informing coaches about their own kids’ “triggers and background.”

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Information about Relationship Education

Invitations to look, feel, act and be “sexy” abound for today’s teens. The youth of the 21st century are a seemingly sophisticated group who know “what’s hot and what’s not.” In addition, formal instruction on preventing unwanted pregnancy and reducing the risk of sexually transmitted disease is a well-established part of American curricula. One might conclude that there has never been a more enlightened and educated generation of young people—a generation prepared for success in dealing with human sexuality and relationships.

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Defining and Measuring Quality in Youth Programs and Classrooms: New Directions for Youth Development

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Improving youth development and well-being requires improving the everyday settings where development occurs. In this volume, scholars who study three different settings — classrooms, youth prohrams, and mentoring dyads — reflect on what constitutes quality in their setting and how to think about measuring it. The authors focus specifically on quality “at the point of service,” meaning the specific practices, processes, and interactions that occur among adults and… More >>

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