Latest News: Heading to Doha, Qatar
I’m leaving on Saturday for Doha, Qatar for two speaking events at the ASPIRE4SPORT international conference next week. I will be giving a keynote address on Prime Sport: The Psychology of Athletic Performance and participating in a panel discussion on the role of technology in sport psychology training for athletes.
Read MoreParenting/Technology: Developing Children’s Healthy Self-identity
Self-identity is one of the trickier contributors to children’s healthy development because you can’t “do” things to your children to give them their self-identity. Rather, you can only create an environment that allows their self-identity to evolve naturally. A part of the environment that supports the emergence of culture and media, that aim to stunt, […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Your First Days Back on Snow
Greetings from beautiful Loveland, Colorado, where the air is thin, snow is amazing (kudos to John Hale and his crew!), the nights are cold, and the days are warm and sunny (in other words, ideal conditions for early season skiing). I’m out here this week and again next week working with racers as they put […]
Read MoreHealth: The Scary Connection Between TV and Life Expectancy
I just read a sobering study that found that television watching, which is one indication of a sedentary lifestyle, has a significant negative impact on life expectancy. Read about the study here.
Read MoreParenting/Popular Culture/Technology: Are Media Creating a Generation of Narcissists?
The externalization of children’s self-identities caused by the omnipresence of popular culture and social media today, that I discussed in my last post, has resulted in an unhealthy internal focus on the self among young people these days. Do you recall the story of Narcissus? The handsome fellow in Greek mythology who, because of his […]
Read MoreParenting/Popular Culture/Technology: Is Facebook Creating a False Self in Your Children?
In my last post, I described how new media is causing the externalization of children’s self-identity. The result of this externalization may be your children developing a false self, in which they internalize the messages of popular culture and media, such as valuing themselves based on their wealth, appearance, or popularity, and those messages become […]
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