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Perfectionism can lead to anger 2006-09-23 16:46:00 A Canadian study of teenage hockey players finds those with perfectionist tendencies are particularly prone to fits of anger
.
Researchers at the University of Alberta say youngsters demand much of themselves in response to unrealistic expectations set for them by their parents or coaches.
"We found that players run into trouble when their standards are too high," said study co-author Dr. John
Girls more likely to injure knee ligament 2006-09-15 04:37:00 Girl athletes are eight times as likely
to injure their knee's anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, than their male counterparts, finds a U.S. study.
"With more girls competing in soccer, basketball, gymnastics and volleyball -- sports requiring maneuvers such as jumping and landing, or quick stops and turns -- more cases of ACL injuries are being seen," says Dr. Christopher S. Ahmad, director of Read more:Girls
Children must learn healthy competition 2006-08-30 04:46:00 Q. My 9-year-old son has always been bright and does well in school. He's very competitive -- hates to lose, and still cries when he loses or when things don't go his way. Without being too critical, we're trying to get him to understand that sports are played for fun, and if there's crying involved, then it's no longer fun for anyone.
Our son has also developed signs of anxiety about sports and Read more:Children
, competition
, healthy
, learn
Minor hockey is sick 2007-12-26 11:52:00 Recently, I read an excellent article in La Presse, a newspaper here in Montreal, written by a former NHL player, Éric Desjardins. Desjardins played with the Montreal Canadians and the Philadelphia Flyers. Since his retirement, last year, he now has the occasion to devote more time to his family, and to follow his son who is at his first years in organized hockey
. Here's what he discovered and Read more:Minor
Girls & Sports 2007-05-15 10:22:00 I found something very funny at Arcamax.
Whether you're reliving your college days, right in the middle of them, or a devoted sports fan, Girls
& Sports
will make you laugh every day.
Happy Mothers Day 2007-05-13 17:37:00 I know how important moms are for kids in their sports. They spend so much energy cheering for them and helping them practice their favorite sports. So, to all sports moms I wish them a great Mothers
Day.
Cheers to you! Read more:Happy
, Happy Mothers
, Happy Mothers Day
Which sport to choose for your child? 2007-04-09 21:20:00 Is your child
aggressive, nervous or passive? There is certainly a sport
activity which is appropriate to him!
Experts will say it to you, sport activity supports the development of the child on the physical and psychological aspects. Here are some suggestions of sports to which you could initiate your child, this summer, according to its temperament.
The nervous kid
Choose, for him, a sport Read more:choose
New Sports & Kids Store 2006-08-21 22:46:00 Thanks to Amazon , I have built a brand new store dedicated to sports & kids. Take a look at the Sports
& Kids Store
to find books, DVDs, apparels, accessories and pretty much anything you need.
Giving your child the excellence edge 2006-08-13 08:55:00 Here's a very interesting article I found in the Arcamax Parents newsletter. It can also applies into your child
sport.
By: Family First Staff
Are you teaching your children skills that will help them excel in life? According to Vicki Caruana's book, Giving
Your Child the Excellence Edge, parents have an integral part in how their children succeed -- not only in school, but in their future
Soccer: The North-America exception 2006-06-15 08:01:00 The entire planet is actually watching the Mundial 2006. Really? If you are living in USA or in Canada you are probably saying: 'What is he talking about?'
Billions of fans around the world are living and breathing at the rythm of the 2006 Soccer
World Cup in Germany. 32 teams each with their own superstars. When a team plays, everything stops in this country. For example, in Argentina, schools Read more:America
, exception
, North
Right to play 2006-03-10 21:15:00 In Torino, when she won gold in her 5000 meters long track speed skating race, Clara Hugues announced that she will be giving $10 000 to the Right
to Play foundation. Now what is Right to Play? I thought I would make you discover this wonderful Canadian organisation.
Right to Play is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play as a tool for the development
The value of loosing 2006-03-09 19:54:00 by: Ken Kaiserman
Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers who won the Super Bowl and became champions of the world for a record tying 5th time.
It must have been great to hoist the Lombardi Trophy as the hapless Seahawks looked on in defeat. What a bunch of losers falling flat on their face like a baby first learning to walk. Of course, they did finish 2nd best - ahead of the other 30 losing
Torino 2006 - That's it 2006-02-27 12:14:00 That's it! The 2006 Winter Olympic Games are now over with the greatest Canadian performance in history. 24 medals, one short of the COC objective. I told you that there was no reason to panic like the medias did after 5 days ;-) With 24 medals, Canada finishes 5th in the ranking with its 7 gold medals but if we only count the medals, it is the 3rd place behind Germany (29 medals) and USA (25 Read more:Torino
Wayne's World - Not excellent 2006-02-23 09:10:00 No I am not talking about Mike Myer's character in Saturday Night Life but rather the 'fiasco' of the canadian hockey team in Turin. Remember that I told you that Gretzky didn't select the best players for Team Canada? Nevertheless I was still believing that this team was able to win. I was wrong. If these guys play above their head for 2 weeks, they can pull it out. After all, they did it in Read more:excellent
, Wayne
, World
4th place festival! 2006-02-22 09:22:00 If the 2006 Winter Olympics games end today, Canada will certainly win the 4th place festival ;-) As of today, 9 athletes finished short of a bronze medal.
- François Bourque at 0,72 s in Giant slalom
- Érik Guay at 0,10 s in Super-G
- Kelly VanderBeek at 0,03 s in Super-G
- Helen Upperton et Heather Moyse at 0,05 s in 2-place bobsleigh
- Marc-André Moreau at 0,68 points in moguls freestyle
Torino 2006 - Day 10 2006-02-21 09:40:00 How things change! In a couple of days, we went from 4 to 14 medals. Now we're talking ;-)
Without a surprise, Canada won gold in women ice hockey. The surprise went from their opponents in final. While they were expecting USA, it is Sweden that showed up. Sweden beat the americans 3-2 in penalty shots. Canada won 4-1 in final and USA ended up with the bronze. So what used to be a 2 teams Read more:Torino
Torino 2006 - Day 4 2006-02-16 08:26:00 Well, only 1 medal in the last 2 days (for a total of 4) and already the medias are panicking and asking questions: did the Canadian Olympic Commitee (COC) put the bar too high with 25 medals?
Personally, I don't think there is any reason to panic simply because there are still a lot of events coming and there are not that many deceptions yet in Canadian performances.
First, the medal. A bronze Read more:Torino
Torino 2006 - Day 2 2006-02-13 07:39:00 Here's a resume of the first 2 days for Canadian athletes.
As expected, Jennifer Heil won a gold medal in moguls freestyle skiing.
She beat Norvegian Kari Traa and French Sandra Laoura. Other Canadians Kristi Richards, Audrey Robichaud and Stéphanie St-Pierre finished respectively 7th, 8th, and 12th. it is the first time in history that a Canadian women wins olympic gold in freestyle skiing. Read more:Torino
It's a start 2006-02-10 22:26:00 There we go. The 2006 Winter Olympic Games are now officially opened. I watched the opening ceremonies with a friend of mine who was in the canadian coaching staff in the 2004 games in Athens. And as he told me: "Mario, you can't realize how big it is until you've been there. At 50 years old, I tought I've seen everything and I didn't believe people telling me how great it is. When you enter the
Youth Sports Goal Settings 2006-01-20 12:18:00 By: Ken Kaiserman
New Year’s day means different things to different people. Certainly, spending time with family and friends and watching some great college bowl games. In our house, a new year also means making resolutions.
It started about 15 years ago when my wife and I were on a ski trip together – before kids. It was one of those days in Taos, New Mexico where the snow was coming down so Read more:Settings
, Sports
Pediatricians Suggest Keeping Kids Active 2005-12-30 14:31:00 By MICHAEL HILL (Associated Press Writer)
Associated Press
GUILDERLAND, N.Y. - It's cold. The noon sky is gray and the sledding hill is all ice. Dave Hilderbrandt stands at the crest, watching his 8-year-old daughter and her friend gleefully zoom down on their plastic sled.
Neither cold nor snow can keep the Hilderbrandts from getting regular exercise.
"We've been out here in blizzards," said Read more:Active
, Keeping Kids
Christmas is coming! 2005-12-04 08:30:00 If you are looking for gift ideas for your sport fanatic kid, take a look at MgrCentral. Read more:Christmas
Parents pushing children into sports a problem, growing in culture (U. Rhode Island) 2005-10-28 22:25:00 By Meghan Vendettoli
Source: U-WIRE
(U-WIRE) KINGSTON, R.I. -- Rick Wolff, the chairman of the Institute for International Sport's Center for Sports Parenting, spoke about the unreasonable expectations of parents for their children's athletic futures as part of the University of RhodeIsland
Honors Colloquium Wednesday night.
Wolff discussed how sports society has changed since he was a child Read more:culture
, Parents
, Rhode Island
Athletics Do Offer Lessons that are Missing from the Classroom 2008-03-29 11:05:00 Let’s face it, in America we idolize our athletes. We pay them exorbitant salaries and elevate them to hero-like status. For our youngsters, the attention we lavish on these individuals leads America’s young people to believe that becoming a professional athlete is the surest way to live the American dream.
Often parents, in turn, perpetuate the problem. The notion that an athletic scholarship Read more:Athletics
, Classroom
, Lessons
, Missing
, Offer
Boycott of Beijing Games? 2008-04-15 10:34:00 The International Olympic Committee harvest today what he has sown this day of July 2001 when, choosing the host city for the 2008 Games
, he preferred Beijing
to Toronto.
At the same time, we could easily predict the increased calls for a boycott of the Games and other forms of protest to the Chinese regime.
At the global level, any sporting event, except maybe the World Cup in soccer, does Read more:Boycott
How far would you go for your child sport? 2008-04-30 14:23:00 Some parents must prevail inhuman sacrifices to allow their child
ren to caress their dreams or, more simply, practice a sport
in which they are excellent.
Some parents ruin themselves, others spend all their time to enable their child to train or participate in competitions, some change their job to be more available, and others accept that their children move at the end of World.
Is it worth
Gymnastic injuries 2008-05-06 13:41:00 I read recently in an article that the rate of injuries among young gymnasts is as high as the injury rates in sports considered to be much more dangerous. In fact, the rate of catastrophic injuries seen in gymnastics is actually similar to that of ice hockey.
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, made a study on children 6 to 17 years old treated in United
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