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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Help ALL Kids Develop Fundamental and Foundational Motor Skills To expand “Motor Skills Monday” beyond National PE & Sport week, think of ways to include activities, games and creative opportunities to increase motor skill ability throughout the year. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

Physical Growth and Maturation From infancy to adolescence, children undergo substantial changes in skeletal structure, muscular strength, cardiorespiratory capacity, and coordination. As children grow older, this conditional approval can encourage a cycle of anxiety and fear of failure. Must perform, must impress.

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A Father’s Love Provides a Gift for His Son and a Stranger

Stanford Childrens

Full of personality, he tackles everything with his playful sense of creativity—whether that’s building sandcastles on the beach or finding new ways to play with empty toy boxes. He wondered whether there was a way to coordinate so that timing wouldn’t be an issue. Alex Zwakman, 8, looks at life with joy and curiosity.

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Baby With Challenging Tetralogy of Fallot Grows Into Healthy Toddler

Stanford Childrens

I knew he pioneered a surgery for this condition,” Kelli says. A supportive prenatal-care journey and birth Kelli received prenatal counseling and continued care from Fetal Cardiology , which included echocardiograms (ultrasounds of the heart) and genetic testing to learn everything they could about Hayden’s condition.

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Young Man Receives the Rare Gift of Three Transplants   

Stanford Childrens

The transplant coordinators were there every step of the way, always on call and available to the family, even calling in the middle of the night or on weekends when needed, or to give the good news that a donated organ had been found. Fong is his kidney transplant coordinator today. “I Joseph is an inspiration.

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Sports for Fitness: The 8 Best Sports for Improving Your Physical Fitness

The Sporting

Tennis You can burn 600 calories in just one hour with a game of tennis Tennis targets muscles across your body This sport can also help you work on your balance and hand-eye coordination Tennis isn't just a game - it's a powerhouse of fitness benefits waiting to be unlocked. Imagine burning 600 calories in just one hour.

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Good coaching is the effective manipulation of task constraints, not just telling athletes how to perform

MSU

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sport Coaching and Leadership Online Programs. As I noted previously, any skill will be performed under a range of conditions in a game. A chaotic, challenging, and fun game created the best conditions for athletes to learn a complicated rule. Written by Andy Driska, Ph.D.