Tag: positive youth development
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Sports are not magic
Why did you put your kids into sports? Was it because you wanted them to learn a life skill? Maybe you thought about how you grew as a person from your athletic days, how you got good at time management, became healthier, and gained more overall confidence. You only want the same for your kid.…
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Just like peanut butter and jelly
It goes together like peanut butter and jelly, a way of saying how obvious a pairing two items are. Or maybe how well two things go together. In either case, I don’t know if you could say that for sports and youth development. Though you probably would want to. Sports can go great with youth…
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The 8 essential elements for positive youth development settings
In my previous posts, I did a quick run through of what sport-based youth development means. Even quicker: It is basically using sport to promote positive youth development. Now, that means that you need to make sure the environment is set up to maximize positive development. The writers, Eccles and Gootman, identified eight essential features…
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Breaking down sport-based youth development: Roots in Positive youth development
To better understand what sport-baesed youth development (or SBYD) is you need to understand Positive Youth Development or PYD. PYD forms the basis for sport-based youth development. I have provided a very quick overview. Positive youth development (PYD) is a framework says youth develop to their fullest potential when they are in the right environments.…
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Quick take on sport-based youth development
Sport-based youth development. What does that mean to you? Maybe you have never heard of the term. Or maybe you did a literal dissertation on it and are ready to educate me on what it actually means. In either case, you came to this article to discover something. So, here I am to help. The…
The Sideline Fix 