Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Stephen Balzac, a former nationally ranked fencer and president of 7 Steps Ahead, about how young athletes can use mental imagery to improve their sports experience. Mental game coach Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Mari, a sports mom to two kayakers who compete at the national level. She says she's their personal trainer, nutritionist, sports psychologist and much more. She asks if she's over-involved in their sports life. Mental game coach Dr. Patrick Cohn and Lisa Cohn listen to her story and answer her question.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Joe Bouffard, director of the Youth Football Coaches Association, about how his association teaches coaches to deal with anger in youth sports. He and mental game expert Dr. Patrick Cohn discuss how high expecations from parents and young athletes can lead to frustration and anger.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Paul Caccamo, the Harvard-educated executive director of Up2Us, a national coalition of community sports programs that teaches young athletes life lessons. He cites research about the many benefits of taking part in youth sports. Mental game expert Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Stephen Balzac, a professor of psychology and former nationally ranked fencer who?s daughter is a fencer. Along with mental game expert Dr. Patrick Cohn, he discusses how to boost kids? confidence by focusing on success. (12:30 minutes)

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews John Engh, COO of the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS), about the confidence-building benefits of coaches? communicating with young athletes outside of practice. Engh describes NAYS? new ShapeStuff program, an online program that allows coaches to create skill-building exercises for their players to use between practices. Engh, host Lisa Cohn and mental game coach Dr. Patrick Cohn discuss how parents can best help young athletes take advantage of such programs.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Tamar Chansky, child psychologist and author of, ?Freeing Your Child From Negative Thinking.? She discusses how to help sports kids be resilient and bounce back from disappointment. Mental game expert Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary. (11:47 minutes)

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Debbie Mandel, a stress management expert who?s the author of ?Addicted to Stress? about how parents can manage stress in youth sports and help kids feel confident in stressful situations. Mental game expert Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary. (12 minutes)

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Tommy Weber, a former professional baseball player who has coached Division 1 players for 24 years and is now also coaching kids 7-18. Parents are too involved in their kids' sports experience, he says. He suggests parents provide a more "organic" experience for their kids. Mental game expert Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary. (11 minutes)

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Jane, a sports mom and tennis pro, along with her Division 1 tennis player. He describes his drive to be perfect--and how it hurt his game in the past. With a little mental game help, he overcame this challenge, Jane says. She tells how. Mental game coach Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary. 13:08.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Jim Thompson, founder of the Positive Coaching Alliance and a spokesman for Liberty Mutual's Responsible Sports program about Responsible Sports program tools parents and coaches can use to help kids learn life lessons from sports. For example, he suggests that teams develop rituals to help kids let go of mistakes and move forward. He also describes ways team mates can support each other emotionally. 21:52 minutes.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Scott Smith, an internationally ranked U.S. figure skater and the second alternate for the last Olympic games in Italy. He describes the mental game strategies he uses to return to skating after injuries. During the 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships a back injury the day of the event prevented him from competing. He shares his parents' role in helping him overcome adversity and succeed in figure skating.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Jim Thompson, spokesman for Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports and founder of The Positive Coaching Alliance about his experience using mental game techniques while coaching high school girls' basketball. He guided his team through both group and individualized visualizations, which increased his players' confidence. Mental game coach Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Avi Stopper, founder and president of CaptainU, a website designed to teach high school athletes and their parents how to successfully negotiate the college recruiting process. It's critical to interact positively with college coaches on and off the field, he says.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Dr. Cory Bank, an athlete-turned-psychologist whose practice focuses on sports psychology. He explains how to identify anxiety in young athletes and how to deal with it. It's important for parents to look past their own athletic hopes for their children and observe their kids objectively in order to identify anxiety.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Robert Gotlin, director of orthopedic and sports rehab for Beth Israel Medical Center's Continuing Center for Health and Healing, and author of the book, "Dr. Rob's Guide to Raising Fit Kids." He discusses how coaches, parents and peers impose on kids conflicting expectations. This reduces kids' ability to enjoy sports. They're more likely to have fun during free play, under little pressure, he says. He also addresses ways to help kids get over mental injuries caused after a traumatic physical sports injury.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Jason Kelly, founder of the Redding Vipers Baseball Club, about how kids can both work hard and have fun at the same time. Put kids in a position to learn by asking them questions and getting them to understand what their bodies are doing, he says.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Mike Popovec, president and CEO of Recruit U, a company that helps high school athletes market themselves to colleges. He discusses the intense pressure many aspiring college athletes feel in order to impress recruiters on the one day they show up to the game. High school athletes can make opportunities for themselves by taking an active role in their recruitment by calling coaches, seeking out scholarships, and appealing to colleges by expanding their resume to include interests outside their sport, he says.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Tom Farrey, ESPN reporter and author of the book "Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children." Farrey based his book on visits to youth sports teams around the country. He talks about how far parents will go to create child athlete entertainers. He offers solutions to the problems created by today's win at all cost mentality.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews John Woods, a partner with Speed To Win, about parents' role in performance training. He argues that parents often don't understand the difference between fitness and performance training and that the benefits of performance training last a lifetime in kids' muscle memory.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Tommy Weber, a former pro baseball player who has coached Div. 1 teams for 22 years, about the value of unstructured play: how it enhances creativity and passion for the game--and how this affects sports kids' mental game.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio Interviews Stephen Raghoobarsingh, Author of the new book, "The New Game Plan: Using Sports to Raise Healthy, Happy, and Successful Kids." He discusses how the "winning it at all costs" mindset in sports often leads to negative character traits off the playing field. We need to change our perception of success and use sports as a vehicle to develop character traits that can be beneficial and rewarding in all aspects of life, he says. Mental game expert Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Video interviews Ryan, a division1 wrestler, about his parents' influence on him throughout his life.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Sean Brawley, a former top-150 world tennis pro and an expert in the "inner game" coaching philosophy. He discusses the inner game of sports parenting, which emphasizes open communication ? how to talk so kids will listen and how to listen so kids will talk. Mental game coach Dr. Patrick Cohn provides commentary.

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Ultimate Sports Parent Radio interviews Steve Horan, founder of sportsparent.net and an expert in community health improvement. He asks the question: With the numbers of kids involved in youth sports ? 30 to 40 million at any given time ? what are we as parents and coaches trying to accomplish and what is the educational purpose of sports? He explains how the end product of youth sports is to enhance life skills in order to help young athletes become happy and successful adults. Youth sports can teach skills in five areas of youth development: how to be mentally and physically healthy, how to have an ethical and competitive character, how to be a self-initiator, how to be part of a team, and finally how to lead.

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