The Mental Edge Blog

Dive deeper into the world of mental toughness and athletic resilience with Shaun & Kelsey's expert insights.

If We Expect Our Kids to Grow, We Have to Be Willing to Look at Ourselves athlete coach parent sport psychology the parent work youth sports Oct 05, 2026

The Parent Work Series

I want to say something at the beginning of this series that may make some parents uncomfortable.

That's intentional.

Not because parents need more criticism. Most parents I ...

The Parent Work: Your Athlete Is Developing. So Are You. (The Parent Series) athlete parent sport psychology the parent work youth sports Sep 28, 2026

We ask a lot of our young athletes.

We ask them to be coachable. To control their emotions. To handle adversity. To take responsibility. To keep growing.

Those are good things to ask. But here's the...

The Fear of Falling Behind May Be What's Holding Your Kid Back coaching mental toughness parenting team sports youth sports Sep 21, 2026

There's a fear underneath a lot of sports parenting that we don't talk about enough.

The fear that our kid is going to get left behind.

Some...