Derval O'Rourke: Positive ways to influence your children in sport

"My kids’ experience will be entirely different to mine so my job is to be their Mum and encourage them. I feel incredibly grateful for the life I had in competitive sport but I try to completely park that when it comes to my kids."

Derval O'Rourke: important to approach kids' interest in sport differently from yours

It’s well-known that as children grow up they go through many different milestones on their way to becoming who they are. 

My two children are both coming to the stage where they are much more interested in sports and participating more actively in the sports that they play.