Coaching a youth team is one thing — coaching people your own age, some of whom you carpool with or grab beers with after games, is a different skill entirely. You don’t have the built-in authority of an adult talking to kids. You’re a peer who’s been handed (or who volunteered for) a whistle, and … [Read More…]
Switch from coaching a youth team to running an adult session and the same drill can land completely differently. Adults show up with baggage — old habits, self-consciousness about looking clumsy, a job to get back to — while kids show up mostly wanting to move and have fun. Neither group is harder to coach, … [Read More…]
Telling your kid to “just try harder” or “make varsity this year” rarely works — and it can backfire, turning practice into a source of anxiety instead of joy. The goals that actually motivate young athletes look different from the ones adults default to: they’re smaller, more frequent, and almost entirely within the athlete’s own … [Read More…]
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