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Sports Rage: A prevention guide for coaches

medianotebook421 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:28:08 +0000

Sports Rage: A prevention guide for coaches is produced by PLAY FAIR CANADA for coaches of youth sports in New South Wales Aulstralia. This guide is an outlet full of tips for preventing violence at youth sporting events. Although some parents may choose to engage in offensive and at times violent behavior, coaches who use this guide and pledge to not partake in violent aggressive behavior may be one element to ending this issue all together. By remaing in self control violence has less a chance of happening.

http://www.yagoonalionsfc.com/documents/Sports%20Rage%20for%20Coaches.pdf

Aulstralian Government: Communities Sports & Recreation

medianotebook421 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:27:11 +0000

The provided link is from the New South Wales Government webpage for Communities Sports & Recreation. I was impressed with the proactive site provided by the government of Aulstralia. The entire page is dedicated to defining ‘sports rage”, about sports rage, preventing sports rage, dealing with an incident, understanding the laws, case studies of sports rage, and sports rage resources including an area to order a sports rage kit. This website is a fantastic resource for parents to teach their children about preventing violence at youth sporting events. It also provides information which adults may find useful such as legal issues surrounding violence at sporting events.

http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/sportrage/

Soccer Moms Gone Wild. From The Wallstreet Journal.

medianotebook421 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:24:39 +0000

This article entitled The Juggle, from April, 28, 2009 was published in the blogs at Wallstreet journal.com. Written by Jim Carlton, a referee for youth soccer sports, the blog post offeres an opinion from the perspective of an official. Mr. Calton writes about a few incidences which he has been part of or knows of. And also questions if “the more prevalent problem, is parents who coach their own children too much from the sidelines, or fail to follow team rules like showing up to games on time.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2009/04/28/soccer-moms-gone-wild-when-parents-need-to-be-refereed-at-youth-sports-games/

Sports violence from a student athletes perspective PBS.org

medianotebook421 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:22:30 +0000

This is a short article from Newshour Extra, A NewsHour with Jim Lehrer special for students by PBS.org online. The article is from July 30, 2000 and opens with information pertaining to the deadly fight between hockey coach and hockey father around this time. What is interesting about this article though is that two teenaged sports player and a psychologist. The brief article sums the issues at hand and also attempts to suggested a solution to the societal issue of sports violence.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/july-dec00/sports_rage.html

Youth Sports and Rage Research

medianotebook421 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:20:00 +0000

This article is from Gregg S. Heinzmann, Ed.M. Director, Youth Sports Research Council at The State University of New Jersey Rutgers. The subject of this article covers violent behavior displayed by parents, that occurs at youth sporting events, commonly refered to as “sports rage.” The article disects the issues involved in this blog topic of youth sports. It seeks to determine whether or not parental misbhavior is a media hype or a real issue. From a psychological standpoint this article also seeks to determine why some parents of young athletes act violently at sporting events.

http://youthsports.rutgers.edu/resources/general-interest/parental-violence-in-youth-sports-facts-myths-and-videotape

mld421 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:04:37 +0000

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-parents-we-mean-be/200907/the-morally-mature-sports-parent

Overview

salem421 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:56:57 +0000

This website gives a great overview of our subject. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4556244

Welcome

medianotebook421 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:11:00 +0000

Welcome to our blog! And thanks for visiting. The objective of this blog, Lionheart421 is to bring social awareness to what seems to be an ever increasing issue that begs the question of “When does parental conduct in a childs’ sporting event cross the boundaries of good parental support? And how much parental participation is healthy for the children?” We intend to use this blog as an open forum to research, evalaute and discuss such topics.