How to Motivate Your Child Out of a Slump

Do everything you can to keep that from happening because the lesson he will learn from this experience will help shape his character for life.

If you have a child in youth sports, then you know that kids sometimes get into a slump. The question is how to motivate your child out of that slump. The following is an excerpt from The Football Momʼs Survival Guide, but the truths are for every parent of a young athlete who struggles with lack of motivation.

Itʼs not fun to watch your son struggle, fail, and suffer discouragement. If youʼre like me, you want to figure out how to make it better right away. Like putting a Band-Aid on a scrape, we want to find an emotional Band-Aid that covers up the ugly stuff. Although we canʼt give our sons “bounce back” pills, as we give him Tylenol or Advil for his aches, there are ways you help him return to his A-game after a bad game, or stretch of games.