Can Youth Sports Be Fun AND Competitive? John O’Sullivan Says Yes Podcast #287 (Replay)
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary

We speak with the Founder of Changing The Game Project John O’Sullivan. Their mission is to ensure that we return youth sports to our children, and put the ‘play’ back in ‘play ball.’ For every Tiger Woods and Andre Aggassi, there are thousands of others who are in it for the fun (until the adults take the fun out of it.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXw0XGOVQvw
Some other topics discussed:
Positive vs. negative reinforcement
Keeping youth sports in perspective
The dangers of living through our kids
When the worst time is to “teach” your young athletes
The best 6 words you can use in youth sports.
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| 0:59.8 | Do, do, do, do, do do do do do to do. All right, here we go my name is todd adams and this is kathy adams welcome back to another episode of zen parenting radio um if you're new to zen parenting radio this is a podcast |
| 1:05.3 | that we do twice a week and today we have a special guest and his name is john O'Sullivan and he's going to talk to us a lot |
| 1:14.1 | about sports and kids and things like that. |
| 1:16.3 | And competition and empowerment. |
| 1:19.4 | We just talked about all these words. |
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| 1:40.0 | And always remember our motto. |
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| 1:43.0 | The best predictor of a child's |
| 1:44.5 | well-being is a parent's self-understanding. Well done. Nice job. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. |
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