Over-involvement with Jerry Lynch 03/28/17

Sports psychologist and team consultant, Jerry Lynch, is the author of, "Let Them Play," a book that provides an antidote to parental over-involvement in sports.Few parents want to undermine their children’s athletic enjoyment and performance but that’s what they do when they fight with referees, yell at coaches, and lash out at fellow parents.Jerry diagnoses this epidemic of parental over-involvement behavior as an attachment of their own egos to their kids’ performance.The result is often kids losing interest in sports.Dr. Lynch offers an alternative: parents participate by empowering their athletic kids and expertly addressing the child who doesn’t “make the cut." Learn how to talk with coaches, detach from results, and help kids both work to excel and learn from failure.As parents and coaches adopt Lynch’s core principles, kids are freed to do their best and, most importantly, feel their best.