Backing kids in sport, with mindset coach Dave Mackay
Ep. 34
Dave Mackay, founder of Sideline Advisor, a counselling and mentoring service for young athletes, talks about how parents can help kids to thrive in, and enjoy sports, navigate performance-related anxiety and achieve long-term success in their chosen sports.
Backing kids in sport, with mindset coach Dave Mackay
Ep. 34
Dave Mackay, founder of Sideline Advisor, a counselling and mentoring service for young athletes, talks about how parents can help kids to thrive in, and enjoy sports, navigate performance-related anxiety and achieve long-term success in their chosen sports.
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Dave Mackay is the founder of Sideline Advisor, a counselling and mentoring service for young athletes. In this episode he chats with Dayna and Jenny about how parents can help kids to thrive in, and enjoy sports, navigate performance-related anxiety and achieve long-term success in their chosen sports.
Dave shares why effort matters more than outcomes, why he doesn’t believe in ‘player of the day’ - and why parents should ‘let the coach be the coach’. He also tackles some of your burning questions like: What happens when kids are pushed too hard in sports? How can you create memories around sports that go beyond the loss or win? What should you do – and not do – on the sideline? What are the traits of young people who succeed in sports in the long term? What are some myths about high performance sport?
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Jenny Hale
Jenny has been on the team at Parenting Place for over 25 years. (She is setting a record!) Once upon a time, Jenny was a teacher and an educator for Parents As First Teachers.
Her lifelong passion is working with families and helping them find solutions to the tricky everyday challenges that come hand-in-hand with parenting. Author of Kind, Firm, Calm: Simple Strategies to Transform Your Parenting, Jenny enjoys writing as well as travelling around the country speaking in preschools, schools, churches and community organisations.
Jenny has been married to Stuart for 47 years and adores being a grandma to their three grandkids. Addicted to buying books for her grandchildren, she’d love to write her own children’s books one day, as well as raise free-range chickens and perhaps even take up horse-riding again.
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