Sentences with phrase «children playing youth»

Don't assume that because your child plays youth sports, he's meeting that minimum.

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As we toured the stateof - the - art youth facility, he explained how the play areas are themed around specific Bible stories — there's even a stream of water which, at the touch of a button, divides down the middle in Red Sea style, for children to pass through.

Learning centers for children and simulations for youth prompt such comments as, «All they do in Sunday school is play.»

As a Christian youth worker, I fully endorse parents checking this or any other game before letting their children play.

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Children ages 5 - 14 are invited to play in Youth League Tennis.

Youth sports primarily exist as a vehicle for our children to play.

One of the parents who complained had learned that Tavares had been convicted in 1974 in New Bedford of «unnatural acts with a child under 16» following an encounter in a swimming pool with a boy who played on a youth football team Tavares had coached.

As we sign our kids up for youth sports each year, as do another 42 million American parents, I suggest that we keep this thing in perspective; trying to understand why it is that our child wants to play and why is that we, the parents, want them to play.

Injuries may be part of the game when you are playing youth sports, but that does not mean that you have to accept them as an inevitability for your child.

I disagree with making your youth team play zone exclusively, but throwing it in now and again, when coached properly, can help players develop higher basketball IQ's and can lead to more wins that will lead to more enjoyment for everyone involved, including the children.

Here we have provided resources to help you understand the rules and concepts of youth flag football, and more importantly to empower you to help your child learn how to play flag football.

The Castle Triathlon Series has played a major role in the buoyant growth of children's triathlon in the UK, culminating in the Hever Castle leg hosting the world's largest youth triathlon in 2013.

Others played during my youth and were my footballing heroes as a child between 1994 - 2002.

How you manage both the ups and the inevitable downs will play a large role in whether your child has a successful youth sports experience.

Director of Smart Teams Play Safe, Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and Brooke is also a founding member of the UN International Safeguards of Children in Sports global coalition.

If your child plays a contact or collision sport, whether at the youth, middle school or high school level, odds are that at some point in their athletic career they will suffer a concussion.

If your child plays a contact or collision sport, whether at the youth, middle school or high school level, chances are they will suffer a concussion at some point in their athletic career.

The summit brought together over fifty of the nation's largest youth - serving and youth - sports organizations, as well as child development, youth sports and prevention experts, to discuss strategies for protecting children from sexual abuse while playing sports.

Director of Smart Teams Play Safe, Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), Brooke is also a founding member of the UN International Safeguards of Children in Sports global coalition.

In 2004, Congress recognized the important role schools play in promoting the health of youth by creating the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act.

It is up to parents to decide for their family whether to allow their child to start, or continue, playing football, not some present or former player, journalist or scientist who takes the position that football is either too dangerous to be played by anyone or safe enough to be played by all (October 25, 2015 update: this is exactly the position adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in its 2015 Policy Statement on Tackling in Youth Football in which it leaves parents - presumably in consultation with their child's pediatrician - to «decide whether the potential health risks of sustaining... injuries [in tackle football] are outweighed by the recreational benefits associated with proper tackling»); and

Push for the formation of a Parent Advisory Group (PAC) consisting of parents with children currently playing in the program to provide the Board of Directors with feedback (both negative and positive) from other parents; the input helps to insure that its decisions are reflective of, and responsive to, a broad cross-section of the youth sports community.

Not only do we love to watch it but my children both play on youth football teams.

From clergy to a youth theatre leader or children's little league coach, we find inspiration and counsel from special people who play unique roles in our family life.

As soon as children start to play youth sports, they begin to learn the basics of sportsmanship for kids.

So even if you played sports yourself when you were a child, you can bet there's a lot to learn as your kids get involved in youth and school sports.

«Sportsmanship is stressed in all our youth sports programs through our philosophy of Kids First and providing a fun and safe place for all children to learn and play sports,» Adams says.

«Though only a tiny percentage of youth athletes end up playing at the collegiate level, many parents believe that their child is the one,» says Jones.

Using the healing power of imagery through the medium of Sand Play Therapy to safely facilitate symbolic expression and transformation of painful experiences, and also provide ways of creating healing images in order to help children, youth, and adults face the challenges of their daily lives.

Women need to push for leadership roles in youth sports both as coaches and administrators to protect their children from needless injury playing sports and help break down the gender stereotyping and sexist attitudes that permeate today's youth sports culture more than 25 years after the passage of Title IX.

A few years ago, players in the Central Missouri Eagles Youth Ice Hockey program which I help coach spent the afternoon with sick, injured and disabled patients at a local children's hospital who must clear substantial hurdles before they can play the sports so many families simply take for granted.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

Our mission at MomsTEAM has been and always will be change the culture of youth sports, from one that rewards the few at the expense of the many to one that gives every child a place to play and a chance to begin a love affair with sports that can last a lifetime, from one that sacrifices our kids» safety at the altar of winning to one which puts safety first, from one that is adult - centered to one that is child - centered.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

He is this year's recipient of the prestigious Youth Sports Parent of the Year Award, which is annually presented by the National Alliance for Youth Sports to an individual who best exemplifies the NAYS Code of Ethics for Parents, founded on tenets like placing the emotional and physical well - being of children ahead of a personal desire to win, encouraging a playing environment of good sportsmanship and supporting the coaches and officials of the program.

In that situation, it could mean an injury or just humiliation (based on the fan reaction I witness at many youth football games) and the end to a child's desire to play this great game that we all love so much.

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CDC's Youth Physical Activity Guidelines Toolkit This site has information on how to help children be active and play.

From encouraging toddlers to play outside and go for walks and co-ed sports and free play for elementary school age children to competitive and non-competitive youth sports for older kids, daily physical activity is important.

For the next 42 hours we biked, tie - dyed, saw a Godspell performance from a traveling youth group, ate 5 square meals (very good for cafeteria food), sang karaoke, shot arrows at the archery range, played ultimate frisbee and flag football, went swimming and enjoyed games night with the other bloggers and their children.

When the AAP felt youth tackle football had «no place in programs for kids» in the 50's; now in 2015, this is a game so sacred to our society that while, modifying «would likely lead to a decrease in the incidence of overall injuries, severe injuries, catastrophic injuries, and concussions» the AAP can not recommend limiting tackle for young children as «the removal of tackling from football would lead to a fundamental change in the way the game is played.»

Name (at least) 3 specific play therapy interventions designed for «children / youth of fury» and «fawns in gorilla suits.»

Projects have included Julie's Jungle, a 4,000 sq. ft. regional handicapped accessible playground with specialized equipment such as ramps, a rubberized surface, short stair height, Braille play panels and sensory garden amps enabling children with physical, visual, hearing and cognitive disabilities and Wappinger Challenger Field, a handicapped accessible baseball field where disabled youth ages 5 to 18 can participate without obstacles, thanks to smaller, synthetic infield, as well as handicapped accessible dugouts, parking and restroom facility.

«As a teacher for over 16 years I know how crucial the summer months can be for the growth of children of all ages and the important role youth programs play in that growth.

Mid-Utica Neighborhood Preservation Corp.: Oneida County Youth will assist in cleaning the property, cleaning children's play areas, painting, and power washing outdoor activity areas.

If your child has just started playing baseball, you'll need one of the best youth baseball gloves to get them started.

James Hudziak, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families, and colleagues including Matthew Albaugh, Ph.D., and graduate student research assistant Eileen Crehan, call their study «the largest investigation of the association between playing a musical instrument and brain development.»

As an occupational therapist who works with children and youth, I use games and toys almost every day to help develop important cognitive, visual perceptual, motor, sensory, social, play and leisure skills.