Did you know kids these days spend just four to seven minutes playing outside each day on average? Sports teams are a great way to get amazing benefits—they build stronger bodies and develop life skills like leadership and self-esteem . But our parenting approach can make or break our kids' experience. Parents who get too involved often put needless pressure on young athletes . We naturally want to step in and "fix" things when our kids feel nervous or mess up, but this usual

Different things can add up in different ways whilst reaching an identical solution, just as ‘eleven plus two’ forms an anagram of ‘twelve plus one’ (Margot Gleave, A Classical Education) Teams are dynamic entities that change as the team develops (Moran & Toner, 2017). But what is a team? It is a collection of two or more individuals with a common identity, a shared purpose, who interact with, and depend upon, each other (Carron & Brawley, 2008). And popularly, people believ

Tom Watson, Ryder Cup player, captain and eight-time golf Major winner, explained that before hitting the golf ball: “I narrow my focus to one dimple at the back-centre of the ball. That’s where I want to hit it … It gives you a better chance of staying down through the shot and making solid contact.” (cited in Watson, 2012). What’s so intriguing about this quote is that we now know that expert golfers do exactly as Tom Watson did. While we often assume we pay attention to wh