Young adolescents, especially boys, who participated in organized sports between ages 6 and 10 are less likely to defy their parents, teachers and other authority figures, a new study by researchers ...

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Sport may serve as a natural and influential context for learning self-regulation, cooperation and respect for rules.” The post How playing sports as kids helps them grow into responsible teens ...

Children who are angry and argumentative can be diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. Psychologists think it may oversimplify deeper causes, like ADHD, autism, and trauma. It might also lead ...

Italian study suggests that children — especially boys — who participate in organized sports between ages 6 and 10 are less prone to develop symptoms of “oppositional defiance" in early adolescence.

Playing sports as a child can breed respect for authority as a teenager, according to new research. Young adolescents - especially boys - who participated in organized sports between the ages of six ...

This post was co-authored with Rachel Hardy, M.A. In this three-part series, we seek to explore alternate explanations for childhood defiance/misbehavior. In Part 1, childhood misbehavior was ...

Get him involved in sports, a new study suggests. Boys who participated in organized sports between 6 to 10 years of age were ...