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Stick or Quit: When to Let Your Child Abandon an Extracurricular Activity

By //  by Leslie Foster

We've covered the many benefits of kids participating in sports and arts based extracurricular activities in Top 10 Benefits of Sports-Based Extracurricular Activities and Top 10 Reasons Your Kids Need Arts-Based Extracurricular Activities. You evaluated your options and chose an activity (or a few!) and hopefully your child is enjoying their activity and everything is tickety-boo at home. For some families however, things may have blown up into World War III with protests of, “I don’t want …

Filed Under: Tips & Advice, Uncategorized Tagged With: how to encourage your kids to stick with it, my kids want to quit sports, quitting extracurriculars, sports, when to let your child quit

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Ten Commandments For Hockey Parents

By //  by Katja Wulfers

The back to school flurry and the reddening leaves mean one thing: hockey season is approaching. It actually means many things are approaching, like winter and clearing snowy driveways and nostrils that stick together and dammit where is that second mitten?  For many Canadians and Americans whose second home is the rink, winter equals hockey. Every year the equipment is pulled out, tried on, exchanged, skates are laced up, old teammates renew friendships or become rivals, and excitement …

Filed Under: Family Fun, Tips & Advice Tagged With: athletes, Canada, children, coaches, hockey, hockey mom, Hockey Night In Canada, hockey parents, kids, Ron MacLean, sports, sportsmanship, volunteers

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