From the Mind of Kip Rodgers, LPC-S
Managing the impact of injury is one of the main reasons parents call my office. When injury is severe or season-ending, the challenges demand strong physical and mental responses for your child and for you the parent(s). Let us review vital protocols to address these typical injury challenges Keeping Motivation: This arguably may be the…
Recently while listening to several podcasts in my weekly consumption, I heard both therapists and pastors say, ‘feelings are not right or wrong, they just are‘. What?? Uh, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This declaration coming from therapists I understand after all I am one. Therapists are trained to ask this hardly ever useful question, ‘How does that make…
Parents, I have a question for you. Do you observe these in your child or teenage athlete no matter how loving, caring, and consistently helpful you try to be? * Angry outbursts * Tantrums * Aggression * Defiance – rebellion * Never sitting still * Emotional meltdowns * Can’t pay attention * Blaming The source…
Never does a day go by when we wish for our kids to encounter struggles and problems. We actually want to protect them from such trouble. But we cannot stop challenges from coming to them. It thus begs the question; how do we know when to protect our children from difficulty and when to allow…
Parenting involves intention. I am excited to share with you one of the best evaluation tools for your kids. I started this tradition with each of my kids when they reached kindergarten. While it looks a bit different today, we do continue the tradition. What is this amazing evaluation tool, you ask? It is called…
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