A Brief Lesson In Child Motivation For Gymnastics Parents

Written by Murray Hughes


Today I'm going to give you a few quick and easy tips for child motivation - I didn't make these up, they are based on psychological theory.

When we think of motivation we think of an audience of adults chanting "I can do it" at a Tony Robbins seminar, but motivation is just as important for children.

As a gymnastics parent, you probably already realize how important motivation for children is.

Teaching your children about motivation and goals at an early age will help them to become fulfilled and successful adults.

But how? Let's discuss a few ideas right now.

To start with, introduce your kids torepparttar concept of setting goals by having a discussion about them.

I don't mean lecture your kids, but have a back-and-forth discussion about what they would like to achieve - don't be too serious, they get plenty of that at school.

Keep it simple, fun and light, and remember to let your kids have their say, listen to their ideas about achieving goals and help to develop them.

Next thing you can do is set up a goal system --> usingrepparttar 132875 goals you created during your discussion, make up a chart of attainable but challenging goals and place it somewhere every one can see it.

Ideas for goals can be learning a new gymnastics skill within a certain time-frame, ranking inrepparttar 132876 top 10 gymnasts atrepparttar 132877 next meet or achieve a certain grade level inrepparttar 132878 next school report card.

History Of The French Open

Written by tennisguy


HISTORY OF THE FRENCH OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

Believe it or not,repparttar French Open, renowned for being played on slow red clay, was initially played on grass!

The tournament was first played in Paris in 1891. In 1897, a women's singles was added as well. But it wasn't until 1925 that non-French players were allowed to compete. There were no official championships duringrepparttar 132874 war years of 1939-45.

The 1920's were glory days for French tennis. Onrepparttar 132875 Female side there wasrepparttar 132876 legendary Suzanne Lenglen - known for both her daring fashion sense as well as her tennis.

And onrepparttar 132877 male side there wererepparttar 132878 famous Musketeers who defeatedrepparttar 132879 US to winrepparttar 132880 Davis Cup in 1927 and held on torepparttar 132881 cup until 1933. These 4 Frenchmen ignited French passions:

--Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste, Jean Borotra, and Jacques Brugnon:

Borotra, known asrepparttar 132882 " Bounding Basque from Biarritz" always wore a blue beret on and offrepparttar 132883 court;

Lacoste, known as "the crocodile", later designedrepparttar 132884 first tennis shirts -adorned withrepparttar 132885 insignia of a crocodile onrepparttar 132886 left pocket;

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