Tag: YMCA

  • HOW TO HELP YOUR KID BE A GREAT TEAM PLAYER

    Team sports start pretty early these days, with kids as young as four and five enrolling in soccer and tee ball leagues. For most kids, that’s just the beginning. They’ll go on to participate in team sports throughout their school years and sometimes into their college ones. Besides sports, being part of a team will…

  • Ways Parents Can Help Their Kids Have a Good Player-Coach Relationship

    Respect is at the center of the player-coach relationship. With a setting that is based on respectful behavior, all members of a team can thrive. A parent’s role in helping a child to have a good relationship with a coach is one of instruction, encouragement and support. Unless you, the parent, are the one doing…

  • 10 REASONS MARTIAL ARTS BENEFITS SPORTS TECHIE KIDS

    In a culture that seems to glorify violence in everything from music to video games and television shows, the idea of enrolling your child in martial arts training classes doesn’t always seem like a good one. While martial arts-centered action films seem to be filled to the brim with violent behavior and gory injuries, you…