One of the fundamental teaching points of the USSF National Youth License is ‘age appropriate activities’ – ensuring players are taught in a way they can comprehend. This varies based on their age. Dr Ron Quinn’s research serves as part of the foundation of current USYSA thinking about youth soccer player development.
Entries Tagged ‘children’
How Many Kids Are REALLY Over Scheduled?
For decades, parents have been convinced by the media that we’re ruining our kid’s lives by having them participate in too many activities. Yet new data shows that may not really be the case.
Nothing Wrong With Being Prepared
As the risk of a H1N1 or swine flu pandemic increases, soccer leagues should be thinking about how they will handle an outbreak if it occurs. Parents will be getting very nervous if this continues and leagues should be ready to answer their questions and know where to look for valuable information and direction.
Soldiers Making Children Smile With Soccer Balls
A group of soldiers deployed to Afghanistan are bringing smiles to the faces of local children by handing out soccer balls from the USSF Passback program in partnership with Eurosport.
How Much Privacy Would You Give Up To Coach?
Hopefully your soccer league does background checks on all coaches, manages, and officers. If they do and you coach/manage, you’re likely familiar with the questionnaire you have to fill out and know that a background check is run on you to ensure you haven’t been convicted of a variety of assaults, sexual crimes, repeated DUI’s, [...]
Sleep Wonderful Sleep
New York magazine has an excellent article up on the impacts of kids sleeping habits and their cognitive development:
Overstimulated, overscheduled kids are getting at least an hour’s less sleep than they need, a deficiency that, new research reveals, has the power to set their cognitive abilities back years.
According to surveys by the National [...]
Just Do It
Baseball Mom recently talked about the coaches who agree to coach the youngest players and how she can’t imagine why they would subject themselves to it:
You guys, one of the hits that came up on a search for my site was "how to coach tball for preschoolers". Why would someone want to volunteer to do [...]
A Shout Out to the MYSA Strikers
While it is always tough when a season ends, this season was different for our travel teams. Our league joined the NCYSA last year and formed our first travel teams in the Fall. My son was invited to play with one of our U10 Boys Challenge teams – one of 7 teams that were ‘the [...]
Give It Time
TBogg – "…a somewhat popular blogger" usually writes about politics, but occasionally treats his readers to a post about his daughter, ‘the lovely and talented Casey’, who has played soccer and many other sports during her childhood. Having completed her senior year of high school ball, her Dad posted up a note about their county [...]
It’s Amazing Kids Risk Playing Soccer
You know that line that separates the sensible protections of our children from the absolutely insane, our kids should walk around in armored bubbles, protections? Well it has been crossed in a BIG way.
Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game [...]
Those Are Some Big Cleats To Fill!
Couldn’t resist posting this. Our 1 year old is a soccer nut (there’s a shock ). He was practically born on the soccer fields (he was born in late August, nuff said). I think his first outing to the fields happened when he was 5 days old. Needless to say, if he sees [...]
Getting Kids Excited About The World Cup
The time difference means most World Cup matches will be in the morning or early afternoon, making it ideal for kids just starting summer vacation!
Little Feet – Helping Kids One Ball At A Time
An effort to send soccer balls to the children of Iraq
