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    The New Game Plan: Using Sports to Raise Happy, Healthy, and Successful Kids
    The New Game Plan: Using Sports to Raise Happy, Healthy, and Successful Kids
    The New Game Plan: Using Sports to Raise Happy, Healthy, and Successful Kids
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    The New Game Plan: Using Sports to Raise Happy, Healthy, and Successful Kids

    By Stephen R. Raghoobarsingh

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    The New Game Plan - Using Sports to Raise Happy, Healthy, and Successful Kids provides parents with ground-breaking strategies that will make a positive difference in a child's life. The book shows parents how to use athletic activities to build a child's self-esteem and answers the tough questions many of them have about a child's involvement in sports.

    The New Game Plan not only speaks to parents but to the sporting community at large. It highlights the impact that professional sport has on an individual's overall development and responds to the serious issues faced by many professional athletes.

    The New Game Plan takes readers on a one-of-a-kind literary road-trip where parents and the athletic world will discover the innovative tools they need to enhance a child's life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMar 5, 2008
    ISBN9781466912014
    The New Game Plan: Using Sports to Raise Happy, Healthy, and Successful Kids

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      The New Game Plan - Stephen R. Raghoobarsingh

      Copyright 2007 Stephen R. Raghoobarsingh, M.A.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Note for Librarians: A cataloguing record for this book is available from Library and Archives Canada at www.collectionscanada.ca/amicus/index-e.html

      Printed in Victoria, BC, Canada.

      Book Edited by Goomtie Raghoobarsingh.

      Cover Design by Berene Campbell and Gary Seebaran.

      ISBN: 978-1-4251-1281-3

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-1201-4 (ebook)

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      Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER 1

      The Sporty Side Of Social Interest

      Direct Interaction Leads To So Much Satisfaction!

      Athletes Need ToCommunicate Too

      Last, But Certainly Not Least…Isolated Play

      Re-Designing The Sports Landscape

      Top 7 Ways Parents Can Apply The New Game Plan

      Chalk Talk: The New Game Plan And Non-Athletic Activities

      EXTRA INNING: Why We Don’t See That Many Upsets In Baseball!

      CHAPTER 2:

      Pizza And Psychology

      Daniel’s Basketball Shoot-Out

      Top 7 Signs Of Healthy Self-Esteem

      Sarina’s Super Soccer Success

      Chalk Talk: Using The New Game Plan Off The Field

      EXTRA INNING: Do Parents Care How Pro Sports Run Their Businesses?

      CHAPTER 3

      A False Sense Of Security: You Can Hear The Warning Bells

      A Peek Into Your Child’s Future: Living With I-Must Messages

      Top 7 Compulsive Behaviours Of Outcome Thinkers

      Another Peek Into Your Child’s Future: Learning About The Process

      Chalk Talk: Routines Or Superstitions?

      Can You Feel The Difference?

      The Lure Of The Quick-Fix

      Ref…Time-Out Please!

      EXTRA INNING: Sports Biggest Epidemic

      CHAPTER 4

      Phil The Thrill

      Getting To Know The Thrill

      It’s All About Goals, But What Type?

      Sports Psychology Vs. Sports Counselling: The Difference Is Personal

      The Behaviour Triad: Connecting Our Thoughts, Feelings, And Behaviours

      Phil’s Outcome Thinking Base Behaviour Triad

      Top 7 Signs Of Outcome Thinking Athletes

      When Sports Mirrors Life…

      Phil’s Outcome Thinking Trigger Experience:

      Losing In The Finals

      Chalk Talk: First-Place Fixation

      A Few Light Bulb Moments

      Phil’s Possible Process Thinking Base Behaviour Triad

      Phil’s Possible Process Thinking Trigger Experience: Losing In The Finals

      EXTRA INNING: Is The NBA Finally Getting It?

      CHAPTER 5

      The Trouble With Being A Good Girl

      The Power Of Slushees

      A Coaching Story

      Keeping Parents In The Loop

      Top 7 Coaching Tips: INSPIRE

      Captaincy:A Privilege Or A Right?

      Chalk Talk: The Reward Board

      Put Your Best Foot Forward

      Can Running Laps Lead To Teamwork?

      It Has Got To Be Fun!

      Putting The Earning In Learning

      EXTRA INNING: There Is No Room In Sports For Abuse!

      CHAPTER 6

      Daniel,A Seatbelt Race,And A Slap In The Face

      I Guess You Won’t Do That Again!

      The Car Ride Home

      The Day After

      Top 7 Ways To Foster Healthy Relationships With Your Child

      What You Need To Know About Logical Consequences

      Sarina’s Homework Hassle

      The Magic Of Birth Order

      The Magic Revealed: Birth Order Characteristics And Strategies

      Beware Of The Default Tendency

      Chalk Talk: Passion And Consistency

      The Final At Bat

      REFERENCES

      This book is dedicated to my amazing group of family and friends.

      Mom, thank you for being such a guiding light in my life.Through your brilliant warmth and direction I learned early on that my dreams were simply realities in waiting.You taught me to always trust my instincts and that love was unconditional, no exceptions.Thanks for shaping me to become the person that I am today.

      Dad, thank you for teaching me to appreciate life in the moment. You’re an amazing example of how to be both hard working and easygoing.You’ve always known how to put a smile on a person’s face and can make any stranger feel right at home.Thanks for helping me create the path that I am on today.

      Roger, you are the most amazing brother a guy could ever hope for.You’re my best friend, sports buddy, and the one I’ve looked up to my whole life. All my favourite childhood memories have you in it and I wouldn’t change them for the world.Thanks for all of your support and for always having my back.

      I also want to thank my incredible friends and relatives. You’ve all been such a terrific source of love and support. The times we have shared together have been so inspiring and will continue to have a profound impact on me.

      Thank you and God bless you all!

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Dad, Mom, Roger

      The Raghoobarsingh Family

      The Seebaran Family

      The Gunaratna Family

      The Pregler Family

      My Trinidad Family

      Phil Knapp

      Aeron McKie

      Gary Seebaran

      Ramin Shadmehr

      Brad MacLean

      Sarina Perneel

      Sean Ramjagsingh

      Ron Ganase

      Ravi Ramnarine

      Dave Larocque

      Kelly Nault

      Josh Bath

      Rainy, Joe, Katy, and Gavin

      Tyler Newbery

      Corrine Lee

      Suzanne Kyra

      Frank Quarto

      Christie Vairo

      Doug Okabe

      Johnny Gazzola

      Karla Sims

      Sandy Jagday

      Bal Sandhu

      Ian, Seb, James

      Matt Greeley

      Jag Minhas

      Sicily

      Khalib and Jaiden

      Josh, Jacob, Jada

      Nyesha, Mckia, Immanuel

      Kaila, Blakey, Brandon, Emily

      Tianna

      Vanessa, Anjali, Justin

      Brendon and Briana

      INTRODUCTION

      The Athlete’s Paradox

      NHL PLAYER ARRESTED FOR MURDER PLOT …

      ACCUSER TO FACE NBA STAR FOR FIRST TIME IN COURT …

      FOUR CHARGED IN STEROID SCANDAL

      You’ve got to be kidding! I muttered to myself in disbelief. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say these sports pages were sounding more and

      more like a bad Hollywood script. Even more disappointing for me was the fact that I waited two whole weeks to rifle through this stack of papers. You see, as a sports counsellor, I often travel out-of-town to conduct workshops and work with clients, including young children, elite athletes, parents, coaches, and so on. But one of the things I really look forward to upon my return is getting caught up on all of the latest on-field action. Unfortunately, on this day, it was the off-field action that was taking centre stage.

      After realizing the magnitude of the headlines before me, I found myself just sitting at the patio table a bit stunned and perplexed. Fortunately, my little nephew Blake, who was playing soccer outside with a few of his friends, broke the silence by shouting, Watch me, Uncle! I quickly got up to cheer on Blakey and his friends and, as I watched them playing joyfully, it dawned on me. If the cream of the crop in professional sports were committing rapes, murders, and abusing drugs, how could I ever live with myself if I were to guide any youngster to even the slightest threat of this unhealthy lifestyle? It was at that moment that I decided to devote my entire career to help parents, coaches, and teachers learn about using sports to positively affect their children’s futures.

      So, where to begin? Well, for starters, we need to understand that the athlete’s paradox is perhaps the biggest problem in the sporting world today. Even if your children are doing fine in sports, or are not playing at a high level, the athlete’s paradox will still affect them because of how embedded it is in the sporting world and that includes our parenting and coaching styles.

      In a nutshell, the athlete’s paradox is the contradiction that children face when they realize that their same approach accepted on the field is not accepted off the field. In other words, children are being taught to behave a certain way on the field, the court, and the rink and then taught that that same behaviour is inappropriate at school, on the playground, and at home. Confusing don’t you think? Professional athletes aren’t the only ones that receive these mixed messages. Remember they were once children, too. In schools, there are countless children everywhere who get away with cheating on tests or are allowed to skip out on exams because they are athletes.What types of messages are we sending them? The not so funny thing is that the people who allow this to happen are the same people who end up shunning our kids years later when they are discovered to be illiterate or are found begging for careers. Something needs to be done now, so that we aren’t setting up the next generation for failure.

      But the question still remains,"Why

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