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The Team Charter - Blueprint for a Hassle-Free Season
A Tool For Conflict Resolution & BehaviorPicture this: the exhilaration of a new season; spotless uniforms, equipment just out of the box, clipboards jammed with fresh paper...boundless enthusiasm...
View ArticleMission Statements: Important in Youth Sports Programs
Many youth sport parents have witnessed inappropriate behavior on the part of players, coaches and other parents at practices and during games. When they do, they may scratch their heads and think to...
View ArticleAll-Star Team Selection Process: A Better, Fairer Way?
Every Picture Tells A Story Ever see a picture in your local paper of a summer "all-star" baseball team of 10 and 11 year olds and find it odd that nearly every kid in the picture is either the son or...
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Youth Sports Organizations: Six Ways To Increase Accountability, Transparency
Tempting targets A former Casper, Wyoming youth baseball official accused of writing $6,600 worth of checks to himself from the organization's bank account pleads guilty to embezzlement. The former...
View ArticleReforming Youth Sports: Community, Grass-Roots Parent Activism Needed
Several years back, a group held a press conference in Washington, D.C. to issue a youth sports national "report card." The Citizenship Through Sports Alliance gave out the following "grades":...
View ArticleAccounting and Financial Disclosure in Youth Sports: Questions from Parents
Although most youth sports organizations are run like small - and, in some cases, not-so-small - businesses, with officers, boards of directors, bylaws and annual meetings, most operate with virtually...
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Youth Sports Politics: Adults Feud, Children Suffer
An article in the Boston Globe, last year, titled "Taking the ‘little' out of Little League" reminds us not only about what is wrong in today's youth sports, but how needed reform can occur. I wrote...
View ArticlePolitics: Constant Concern for Sports Parents
Brooke de Lench says politics in youth and school sports are always going to be with us, and were one of the reasons she started MomsTeam. Posted September 24, 2011
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Missing Gate Receipts A Reminder of Need for Oversight Of Youth Sports...
It seems as if a week doesn't go by these days without a story coming across my desk about money being embezzled from the coffers of local sports teams or lack oversight by a board of directors. On...
View ArticleSports Parents Asking Tough Questions: Are They Troublemakers?
This past weekend, the Hey Coach Tony show on a local Connecticut radio station devoted an entire hour to discussing one of MomsTeam's most popular articles: the one listing questions to ask youth...
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