6 tips on fostering love of sports in children

By Jill Barker, The Gazette

You signed your kids up for organized sport in hopes of keeping them active. But there's more to keeping kids in the game than buying gear and driving them to practices. According to McGill University's Enrique Garcia, whose area of expertise includes motivation in youth sport and physical activity, a parent's job goes far beyond chauffeur and banker.

"The very best parents can do is to encourage and nurture the youngsters' ability to generate motivation from within and for themselves," Garcia said. "This ability fuels the natural motivation to play sports."

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