Raise a Successful and Happy Athlete

On-Demand Class · Parenting

My Raise a Successful and Happy Athlete online classes help parents be as supportive and encouraging as possible with their young athletes and create the most positive environment for their children's sports participation.

Class Description

You are an Essential Piece of Your Children's 'Success and Happiness' Puzzle You spend a lot of time on your children's athletic development with teams, coaches, and camps. How much time are you devoting to your crucial role as a sport parent? Learn how to help your children achieve their athletic and life goals while raising them to be healthy and happy! Ask yourself these questions: Do you get nervous on game day? Do you get more excited by your kids' athletic successes and more disappointed by their failures than they do? Do you focus on results more than fun? Do your children feel pressure from you to live up to your athletic expectations? If you answered ‘YES!’ to these questions (or just want to be the best sport parent you can be), then I can help.

Class Materials

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Sessions Overview

  1. Building Self-Esteem: This class will introduce parents to the all-important role that self-esteem plays in the healthy development of children. Additionally, Dr. Taylor will show parents how to use their children's sports participation as a means of building self-esteem.
  2. Develop Emotional Mastery: Emotions play a vital role in how much they enjoy their sports participation and in their overall healthy development. This class will explore how parents can help their children to develop emotional mastery in sports and life.
  3. Define Success: One of the most important ways parents can positively impact their children's efforts in sports (as well as in school and life) is to help them define success in a healthy way. This class will help parents identify key aspects of what a positive definition of success is.
  4. Have Goals, Not Expectations: Expectations can be a huge burden on young athletes that create pressure and stress. This class will off parents the much-healthier alternative of setting goals, rather than expectations, that will encourage their children's enjoyment and efforts.
  5. Messaging for Young Athletes: One of Dr. Taylor's key maxims is: "Children become the messages they get the most." This class shows parents the many unhealthy messages their children get from the youth-sport culture and how they can send positive messages to their children.
  6. Do for Yourself: Most parents are well intentioned, but simply don't know how to be the best sport parent they can be. This class will show parents what they should do to support their young athletes in the healthiest way possible.
  7. Keys to Sending the Right Messages: As discussed in the previous class, messages from many sources have a big impact on who children become. This class shows parents how to send the healthiest messages to their children.
  8. DO with Other Parents: As noted in the previous class, most parents are well intentioned, but just don't know what is the best thing to do for their children. This class describes how parents can interact with other parents to ensure that their children's youth-sport experience is as healthy as possible.

Your Instructor

Dr. Jim Taylor

Dr. Jim Taylor is an internationally recognized authority on the psychology of sport and parenting. He has consulted with athletes, coaches, and parents for more than 30 years. Jim has been a consultant to numerous national teams and has been an invited speaker by the Olympic committees of the U.S., Spain, France, and Poland. He has worked with professional, Olympic, collegiate, and junior-elite athletes in many other sports. Jim has been a speaker at hundreds of elementary and secondary schools, education associations, and youth-sports programs, around the world. Jim received his Bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and earned his Master's degree and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Colorado. He was an associate professor in the School of Psychology at Nova University in Ft. Lauderdale, a clinical associate professor in the Master’s in Sport and Performance Psychology program at the University of Denver, and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Sports Management program at the University of San Francisco. Jim is the author 18 books including five parenting books and eight sport psychology books. He is also the editor of four textbooks related to sport psychology. He has published more than 750 articles in popular and professional publications and has given more than 1000 workshops and presentations throughout the North America and Europe. Dr. Jim’s blog posts have been read by more than ten million people on psychologytoday.com and huffingtonpost.com, as well as on his own web site. He hosts the Raising Young Athletes podcast. A former internationally ranked alpine ski racer, Jim is a certified tennis coach, a 2nd degree black belt and certified instructor in karate, a marathon runner, and an Ironman triathlete. To learn more, visit www.drjimtaylor.com.

Degrees and Certifications

Ph.D., Psychology

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