#219 “Prepare the Child for the Path, not the Path for the Child” with Author and HS Football Coach Clint Schumacher
Sunday, 09 May 2021
Listen on the web, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher Resilience is quite the buzzword these days, but what is it exactly, and how do we develop resilience in ourselves, and model it for our children? Clint Schumacher is a husband, father, lawyer, HS football coach and author fo the great new book Second Wind, all about the 14 decisions we
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Rescue Your Kids From “Affluenza”: Teach Them Grit!
Monday, 16 December 2013
The recent news out of Texas, where a 16 year old driver was only given probation for driving drunk and killing four innocent bystanders, popularized a new psychological term in the process. Apparently, parents raising children in wealthy suburbs with little oversight, few rules, and utter indifference to their behavior are causing “affluenza,” a supposed
- Published in Mental Toughness, Praise, Sports Parenting
The Missing Ingredient
Monday, 02 December 2013
If you have coached long enough, you have probably said this about a player: “He’s got a lot of talent, but he is just missing something.” I have written on similar subjects in the past, and there has been academic research in this area. In all likelihood, that missing ingredient was often the inner drive
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