Goals for Children’s Sports

Goals for Children’s Sports: What are Yours?

· Check as many of these goals as you find desirable.

· Include additional goals as appropriate for your family.

· With multiple sports/children, you may have different goals for each child/sport.

· Parents can complete this quiz separately.

· Each child should complete his/her own goals quiz (with help as age indicated.)

____1. Understand making and keeping commitments

____2. Gain social skills/be with friends/make friends

____3. Develop coordination

____4. Get healthy exercise

____5. Experience group dynamics

____6. Learn fair play/cooperation

____7. Develop leadership skills

____8. Have fun/relax

____9. Increase confidence

____10. Respect individual differences

____11. Qualify for athletic scholarships

____12. Dream big for professional sports

____13.____________________________

____14.____________________________

1. Divide your goals into groups– top, medium, low priority and not a priority.

2. Enter at least one goal in each of the categories #1-3. Use #4 as needed.

Contrast and compare all the quiz responses. Any surprises?

Whose were most similar? Most different? Why?

After a discussion, use the information to compile a list

of behaviors, activities, and changes in routines

that will support those goals.

MORE INFO LINKS: Lists- Sports Parents Who Over Do It

Posts- Pt1 5-5-08; Pt2 5-10-08

Reflections- My Golf & My Life Lessons

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