Push! Push! Push! After all, don’t you want your kid to go pro?
Dads, do you remember growing up as a teen - the school work, girls, pressure to succeed in sports, and zits? I’m only going to touch on the sports end of this topic.

Do you remember your Pop Warner football days, Little League moments or Biddy Basketball games long ago?
I have many memories of my games as a child, and others I covered as a photographer for The Telegraph. Some are good ones, and others I’d rather forget, if I could. For me, it’s not the games themselves that stick in my head, but the events surrounding them. Unfortunately, we don’t get to choose which memories to keep, or forget.

There are many positives to growing up in a small town. The opportunities are more plentiful for athletes where the populations are larger, but the sense of community and closeness of friendships is stronger where I grew up, in Whitehall, Wisconsin.

Do you wish you could take better photos of your child playing sports? Check out my tips on sports photography.

For parents of athletes, pictures are a way to capture moments on the field, and save them to share with family and friends. Sports photography is not easy, and takes a good camera and quick reaction time [...]

When I think of poor sportsmanship, my thoughts are of fighting hockey players, soccer red cards, John McEnroe, and the picture I shot following a Rothsay, Minn., football playoff game 20 years ago. Do you remember the phrase, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me?” Well, they do!
 
With brutal November temperatures [...]

You probably have some collecting cobwebs in the basement. Or, maybe you use them now as book markers. Full of pinholes and scribbling from your youth days, just what are those old ticket stubs, programs and pennants worth on ebay?
As a child, I collected the stubs and souvenirs from the few big league games my parents were able to take [...]