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Tag Archives: youth sports
Tiger Parent Worship in HBO’s ‘State of Play: Trophy Kids’
“If she’s crying that’s good, because I’m going to make her tough.” – Andre Avery, after making his daughter cry with his criticism her golf play In a documentary full of disturbing parental behavior, one thing that particularly disturbs me … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyles, Movies, Sports
Tagged Amari Avery, golf, parenting, State of Play: Trophy Kids, The Short Game, youth sports
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Cross Country: An Ideal Asian American Youth Sport?
While I have seen many heavily Asian American teams at high school cross country meets, one thing that I have recently began to notice is that increasingly, some of the winners are Asian Americans. After seeing this interview with runner … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyles, Sports
Tagged Cameron Tu, cross country running, Rajpaul Pannu, running, youth sports
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Coaching Asian American Kids in Youth Sports
Coaching Asian American kids in youth sports has some unique challenges. During my twelve years of coaching youth sports, I have worked with a lot of Asian American kids, and while for the most part, they are just like kids … Continue reading
Viral Like SARS: The Story of the Panyee Football Club
Asians are stereotyped as not being innovative, as well as stereotyped as being nonathletic, so I was delighted to see this video about the Panyee Football Club. How do you play soccer when you live on a floating village in … Continue reading
Posted in Sports, Viral Like SARS
Tagged Make the Different, Panyee Football Club, Thai commercial, Thai Military Bank, youth sports
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Tamari Miyashiro hoping for a shot at NCAA volleyball title
“Looks like we have a team of all liberos!” When I was coaching The Daughter’s volleyball team, that was one of my fellow coaches’ comments about our team of short Asian girls. For those of you who don’t know volleyball, … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged libero, short asians, tall asians, Tamari Miyashiro, University of Washington, volleyball, youth sports
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Asian Kids in the Little League World Series
“She’s too fragile!” I have heard this a number of times from Asian parents as an explanation why they don’t let their daughters play sports. I’m glad that the Filipino parents of Asian-Canadian Katie Reyes didn’t feel that way. Katie … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged 2009 little league world series, Chula Vista, Taiwan, youth sports
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Asian American Childhood Obesity on the Rise
“Do I have to play basketball this summer?” asked Number One Son. He really didn’t want to do sports this summer, and apparently he is not alone. This article mentions that Asian-American boys have the lowest sports participation rate (39%) … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Drink, Health, Sports
Tagged assimilation, childhood obesity, exercise, fast food, fresh lumpia, ghee, immigrants, lechon, tandori chicken, youth sports
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Adding a Helping of Heritage on a Full Plate (Part 3 – Stuffing your kid’s Plate)
While I was taking Number One Son to the emergency room, I felt like the worst parent in the world… In what activities should we push our children? How hard? Why do we push them? These are all questions that … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged club volleyball, Family, little league, parenting, piano, youth music, youth sports
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