Can Youth Sports Be Fun AND Competitive? John O’Sullivan Says Yes.
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2015
⏱️ 45 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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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do all right here we go. |
| 0:07.4 | My name is Todd Adams. |
| 0:08.5 | And this is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:12.5 | If you're new to Zen Parenting Radio, this is a podcast that we do twice a week. |
| 0:17.8 | And today we have a special guest, and his name is John O'Sullivan. And he's going to talk to us a lot |
| 0:24.3 | about sports and kids and things like that. And competition and empowerment. We just talked about |
| 0:30.6 | all these words. That's right. So among other things. And so Zen Parenting Radio, it's a discussion |
| 0:36.6 | between a spiritual and emotional mom and a logical and practical dad. |
| 0:40.3 | We have three daughters ages 11, 10, and 7. |
| 0:44.1 | And our goal is to give you the resources to become a better parent, but more importantly, to become a better you. |
| 0:50.2 | And always remember our motto. |
| 0:51.6 | And what's that, sweetie? |
| 0:53.1 | The best predictor of a child's |
| 0:54.7 | well-being is a parent's self-understanding. Well done. Nice job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:59.3 | Thank you. Thank you. So John O'Solvin's here. And John started the Changing the Game Project in |
| 1:04.9 | 2012 after two decades as a soccer player and coach on the youth high school, college, and |
| 1:10.4 | professional level. |
| 1:11.9 | He brings to the table a wealth of practical hands-on knowledge garnered through years of working with players |
| 1:16.8 | and their families on sport-specific development, fitness, and nutrition, |
| 1:21.4 | college recruiting, and most importantly, nurturing positive, healthy, and supportive relationships |
| 1:26.5 | between parents and their young athletes. |
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