Category: parents

on troubled teens

Ages 13 to 14

Parents should brace themselves for what is often a wildly emotional passage. Young teens become sensitive to peers’ opinions and react strongly to them. Yet the social skills they need to figure out what their peers really think won’t be fully mature for years, making this a confusing and potentially miserable time.

At about this time, teens’ response to stress goes haywire, sparking more door-slamming and tears. …

Wall Street Journal – What Teens Need Most From Their Parents

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Family support is a stress buffer. The routine of sport training can be an anchor. The Gym a refuge.

competition DOs and DON’Ts

“Bella” is a Trampoline Coach in the UK. She posted some good reminders for coaches, parents and athletes at a competition.

Competition Etiquette

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Iceland has Europe’s cleanest living teens

A few factors emerged as strongly protective: participation in organised activities – especially sport – three or four times a week, total time spent with parents during the week, feeling cared about at school, and not being outdoors in the late evenings. …

Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening

In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Emma Young finds out how they did it, and why other countries won’t follow suit.

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Crazy Gym Mom (CGM)

Somehow I missed the August 2016 launch of this site. 🙂

I’m subscribed now.

Check a sample post – Heal A Sprained Ankle Fast! – HEM Ankle Rahab

Her daughter used a lace-up ankle brace successfully.

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related – Crazy Gym Mom on Facebook

 

Twister’s Florida: “your child’s safety is our top priority”

Click through to see the club’s policies on their Child Safety page.

Is your club as laser focused and transparent?

(via Jessica O’Beirne)

inappropriate coaching behaviours

Vinnie Silber:

Giving gifts, especially if only some children receive them. Gifts given by coaches included gadgets and electronics, clothing, jewelry, stuffed animals and bicycles.

Spending time alone with children, especially behind closed doors. …

Tickling.

Poking.

Massaging stomach or other areas.

Hair stroking.

Sitting in laps.

Putting hands in inappropriate places while spotting gymnasts.

Talking about romantic or sexual relationships.

Sexual jokes or comments. …

Warning Signs of Sexual Abuse

related – pedophile kept coaching gymnastics

AN INDYSTAR INVESTIGATION TRACED THE PATH OF FORMER COACH RAY ADAMS ACROSS A DOZEN GYMS IN FOUR STATES.

a Gym Dad’s first competition

His first rodeo. 🙂

… I was standing in a cavernous gym outside of Baltimore, watching my kid compete in her first official gymnastics meet. This was a long time coming for the girl. She had to practice for years to make the team, and she had to practice for months after that just to get to this first meet. And now it was all over. …

I remember when I would lose as a kid (happened a lot), and my parents would try to make it better by consoling me, but somehow everything they said just pissed me off. Now it was my turn to be the awkward sports parent. …

So I shut up and took her to Wendy’s instead. Everyone fails in life. It’s an important part of the learning process. But that doesn’t mean it sucks any less when it happens to you, or to someone you love. …

But we drove home and, bit by bit, she calmed down and laughed and smiled and started to resemble herself again. She started doing cartwheels and handstands in the living room and driving me nuts, just like she did before the meet …

What It’s Like To Watch Your Kid Lose

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trampoline parks are too dangerous

Gymnastics and Trampoline coaches need educate the general public. If you want to do trampoline, do so with experienced, accredited coaches in a safe facility. Not with no instruction and minimal supervision. 😦

Investigation after 102 incidents at trampoline park

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(via IG)