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Don’t “Should” On Your Kids: Build Their Mental Toughness
A change has occurred — youth sports have been professionalized and there has been a perversion of potential. It has become scholarships over development, trophies over toughness, and talent over tenacity.
The professionalization has created an environment of externally driven, perfectionist, and stressed competitors. Parenting athletes also requires such a vast amount of sacrifice both emotionally and financially.
Are we doing it correctly?
This book will help you empower your kids to build their mental toughness.
In this cutting-edge book, you’ll develop specific strategies:
• Find out how to prep them for the most important competitions.
• Discover one way to help them build their own passion and desire.
• How a blow-pop can help during an actual competition.
• One way to ensure your child doesn’t quit playing.
• What we actually need to call our child.
• Learn the best and worst times to talk about the game.
The professionalization has created an environment of externally driven, perfectionist, and stressed competitors. Parenting athletes also requires such a vast amount of sacrifice both emotionally and financially.
Are we doing it correctly?
This book will help you empower your kids to build their mental toughness.
In this cutting-edge book, you’ll develop specific strategies:
• Find out how to prep them for the most important competitions.
• Discover one way to help them build their own passion and desire.
• How a blow-pop can help during an actual competition.
• One way to ensure your child doesn’t quit playing.
• What we actually need to call our child.
• Learn the best and worst times to talk about the game.
- GenresParenting
154 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 30, 2015
92 people are currently reading
230 people want to read
About the author
Rob Bell
8 books27 followers• Dr. Rob Bell is a noted sport psychology coach, author, and speaker. He has spoken to the NFL, PGA, Marriott, and Walgreens, and has written 8 books on Mental Toughness.
• Rob has worked with 3 different winners on the PGA Tour and has served as the mental coach for University of Notre Dame, Indy Eleven, an Indy 500 champion, an Olympic Silver medalist, a grand slam tennis champion, and the USTA National Champion.
• Dr. Bell has caddied over 20+ events on the PGA & LPGA Tours. He’s an ironman, completed several ultra marathons and a 100-mile trail run.
• He hosts the Mental Toughness Podcast With Dr. Rob Bell and interviews experts on mental heath, mental toughness, and their Hinge moments.
• A fomer university professor Dr. Bell has published over a dozen journal articles and has been featured on ESPN, The Golf Channel, Runner’s World, NY Times and Stack Magazine.
• He is a graduate from of University of Tennessee, Temple University, & Shepherd University. Join on instagram @drrobbell or drrobbell.com
• Rob has worked with 3 different winners on the PGA Tour and has served as the mental coach for University of Notre Dame, Indy Eleven, an Indy 500 champion, an Olympic Silver medalist, a grand slam tennis champion, and the USTA National Champion.
• Dr. Bell has caddied over 20+ events on the PGA & LPGA Tours. He’s an ironman, completed several ultra marathons and a 100-mile trail run.
• He hosts the Mental Toughness Podcast With Dr. Rob Bell and interviews experts on mental heath, mental toughness, and their Hinge moments.
• A fomer university professor Dr. Bell has published over a dozen journal articles and has been featured on ESPN, The Golf Channel, Runner’s World, NY Times and Stack Magazine.
• He is a graduate from of University of Tennessee, Temple University, & Shepherd University. Join on instagram @drrobbell or drrobbell.com
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December 21, 2015
Don't "Should" On Your Kids is the antidote for parents who love their children. Sports and performance can poison the minds of parents significantly affecting present and future relationships with their children. Reading this book was like a trip down memory lane of my journey as an elite youth athlete. I picked out areas that my parents excelled in and the areas that could have benefitted from what I like to call Parent Sport Education, provided in this book. Increasing awareness of behaviors and incorporating education can make a world of difference for not only the parents but also the competitors. Parents who want to "groom" their competitors need to read this book to unlock how to provide the best support. As a coach and performance consultant, I have recommended Don't "Should" On Your Kids to parents of my students and clients. It is a great ice breaker and resource for the parent-competitor relationship conversation.
June 9, 2017
Excellent book. One that any parent can pull great lessons from, especially parents of young athletes. Filled with great quotes and lessons.
February 23, 2016
The concept of don't "should" on your kids is something I have been working on and had someone recommend this book. Even though it was focused on elite athletes, I had hoped it would have more helpful suggestions. Maybe someone who has a child who is an elite athlete would appreciate this book but it seemed more or less a book by a coach trying to get parents to let coaches do the coaching. The chapters were random like whatever random thought or story came to the author's mind was inserted at that moment. I did enjoy spending the time thinking about how to have more positive interactions with my kids so it wasn't a waste, just not something I would recommend.
March 1, 2016
FTC Disclosure: I received this book free from Goodreads hoping I would review it.
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