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Three Reasons You Are Feeling Stress and How to Handle It

By Janis B. Meredith, JBM Thinks, 12/04/17, 12:00PM PST

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It may be that once upon a time, your child loved playing softball and she was good, so you became her biggest cheerleader and swept her along into private coaching and elite teams. But then she got burned out because that’s all she was doing.

Although youth sports is supposed to be a fun experience for you and your child, it’s inevitable that youth sports stress (read the signs here) will creep in. After all, competition comes with pressure, and that pressure affects sports parents in a multitude of ways.

What stresses you out about youth sports? The busy-ness? The coaching conflicts? The drama?

Those are definitely reasons to feel stress, but I think if parens would start looking IN for answers to their stress, instead of blaming something on the OUTside, they would get to the heart of the problem.

Let’s dig in and talk about the 5 Reasons you are REALLY feeling stress about youth sports and how to handle it.