2-4-1 Blog

October 23, 2023

Kids That Play Sports Benefit Both Physically and Mentally

Whether playing lacrosse, soccer or fencing, kids who participate in sports can benefit both physically and mentally. Kids experience a multitude of benefits: 1. Improves Physical Health Childhood obesity is at an all-time high, which puts kids at increased risk

October 9, 2023

The Underrated MVP in Sports: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) 🧠💪

April 24, 2023

Kids are Kids

March 18, 2023

Global Need to Put Play Back Into Sports

November 10, 2022

2-4-1 CARE through the eyes of Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso is a master at leadership through culture, ability, relationship, and enjoyment – core components of 2-4-1 CARE.

February 6, 2022

2-4-1 “Reggae Girlz”

“I hope that our team can show girls from any country, big or small, that you can follow your dreams…”

March 6, 2021

Do We Really Want to Go Back to Normal?

As we work our way back to “normal” in what hopefully will soon be a post-pandemic world, we have an opportunity to approach our youth sports parenting differently. While maybe not the way we would have asked for, we were nonetheless

February 27, 2021

Everything I Need to Know, I Learned Through Sports

Let’s face it – don’t you think the world would be a much better place if we were all a little more generous, consistent, honest, kind, determined, brave, calm, grateful, humble and joyful.

January 21, 2018

Explaining Physical Literacy Through an Irish Dancing NFL Running Back

For those of you who have read my newsletters over the years, you?re by now quite familiar with my Irish heritage. Hard to get away from it when you?re one of eight children and have 77 first cousins. Well, of