Parenting

Are sports parents getting in the way of your team’s success?

If you’re struggling with today’s sports parents, you are not alone. Headlines like following are common:

• How Parents are Ruining Sports
• Sports Parents, We Have a Problem
• The Nightmare Sports Parent

Parents become obstacles not because they want to be a problem but because there is a lack of collaboration to support the athlete and the team.

As a coach, you can be part of the solution. In The Sports Parent Solution, J.P. Nerbun, one of the world’s leading experts on team culture in sports, offers a comprehensive blueprint for turning your most challenging sports parents into your greatest allies.

Leveraging ideas from leaders in education, the military, and sports, and sharing dozens of real stories from youth, high school, and collegiate-level coaches, Nerbun shares practical strategies for creating open lines of communication, building a connection to the team, and engaging in hard conversations. Throughout, readers will find inspiration in real stories from coaches at the youth, high school, and collegiate level whom Nerbun has supported in his work as a leadership coach and culture consultant.

Explore how to:

• Overcome the common obstacles and fear of sports parents
• Foster a collaborative partnership
• Get parent support for your goal and vision for the team
• Enforce boundaries for the wellbeing of you and the team

The Sports Parents Solution gives you the strategies and methods you need to transform the parent culture in your team, allowing you to better support each athlete’s growth, improve your team’s performance, create an extraordinary experience for all involved—and take your program to a whole new level.

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Ours is a worried world. Children are growing up with anxiety, uncertainty and low self-esteem. Many parents feel helpless as their happy, easy-going children are overwhelmed by a tsunami of pressure and anxiety. How can we enable them to flourish in the infamously ‘unprecedented’ times? In A Mind of Their Own, Katharine Hill, UK Director of Care for the Family, throws us a lifeline. Backed by solid, up-to-the minute research and grounded in real life experience, she tackles everything from body confidence, dealing with disappointment to strong emotions, and gives steps to take when challenges come. Packed with encouragement and creative activities it will help families form good practices like listening well, setting consistent boundaries and establishing a growth mindset. Celebrating and affirming the family, A Mind of Their Own equips parents to build resilience and care well for their children’s mental wellbeing, from toddlerhood to teenage years.

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Vision Board Kit For Teen Girls To Manifest Their Best Life.
The Book Includes Pictures, Quotes and Words For:

• Health
• Money, Business and Manifestation Checks
• Family
• Friends
• Beauty
• Travel
• Graduation
• Prom
• Study
• Positive Affirmations and Quotes

and more

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Supporting kids with challenging behaviours can be difficult – but change the narrative, and you may be surprised.

Most children will behave in challenging ways at some point, but persistent and difficult-to-deal-with behaviours can have a negative impact on relationships and learning.

For educators, health professionals and caregivers who find traditional methods of behaviour management ineffective, Challenging The Story offers a fresh perspective and actionable strategies for positive change.

Read this book to:

• Approach challenging behaviours with curiosity and compassion

• Apply innovative, proven strategies to encourage positive behaviour while treating kids with respect and kindness

• Build strong bonds with children and create an environment of trust and mutual respect

• Improve your skills in dealing with difficult behaviours in a variety of scenarios

• Guide children towards significant, lasting change and a new, more positive narrative for a brighter future

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From the bestselling authors of The Montessori Toddler and The Montessori Baby, The Montessori Child guides parents in using the principals of Montessori to raise their school-aged children in ways that assist their development and foster a respectful relationship between parent and child and world.

When children are given independence, the tools to succeed, and the encouragement to build on their abilities, it’s amazing what they can achieve. The newest book in the bestselling Montessori series is an everything-you-need-to-know guide to raising your school-aged child (from 3-12 years old, with a bonus chapter for the teen years) in the Montessori way. Educators Simone Davies and Junnifa Uzodike provide an in-depth, practical guide to incorporating Montessori principles into readers’ everyday lives, with advice on everything from setting up your home in ways that encourage curiosity and independence to supporting your child’s social and moral development with a balance of limit-setting and age-appropriate freedoms.The book includes dozens of hands-on activities to help foster your child’s love of numbers and literacy, art and science, and ones that encourage community-building, social awareness, and connection with the natural world. The Montessori Child offers a powerful alternative for parents who feel that family life has gotten too complicated by showing parents how to make more intentional choices for your family, how to better understand the needs of your children, and support them as they develop their unique potential.

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