{"id":652,"date":"2015-03-30T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2019-11-17T16:33:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T16:33:46","slug":"featured-janis-b-meredith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/featured-janis-b-meredith\/","title":{"rendered":"Janis B. Meredith: Mother of Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\">Smart Coos<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Janis B. Meredith: Mother of Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FEATURE-PHOTO-Janis-Meredith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Janis Meredith: Mother of Sports\" alt=\"FEATURE PHOTO- Janis Meredith\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/FEATURE-PHOTO-Janis-Meredith-300x255.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Sports-enthusiast, blogger, mother\u2014these are just a few terms that can be used to describe Janis B. Meredith. As a wife of a sports coach for 28 years, she has become more than expert on the world of sports and youth, and this inspired her to create her own blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/jbmthinks.com\/\">JBM Thinks<\/a>. Along with her blog, she has authorized the <a href=\"http:\/\/jbmthinks.com\/sports-parenting-survival-guides\/\">Sports Parenting Survivals Guide Series<\/a> and launched a bi-weekly podcast for sports parents. This mom isn\u2019t afraid to use social media platforms to spread her message and voice her opinion as you can find her on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sportsparenting\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jbmthinks\">Twitter<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>What was the inspiration behind your blog\/ page? Why have you continued?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As a coach\u2019s wife for 28 years, a sports mom for 21, and now a coach\u2019s mom, I\u2019ve&nbsp;experienced the youth sports life from both sides of the bench and want to help sports&nbsp;parents make youth sports a positive and growing experience for their kids.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How many kids do you have? What is the age of your youngest and&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>oldest? If more than one, did you plan to have that age gap?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Three kids: ages 21,24,27. All played sports from pre-school through college. Yes, we&nbsp;tried our best to get them three years apart&#8230;we were only a few months off either way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What is your fondest memory as a mother? Your not so fondest memory?&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I believe my fondest memories are still happening! My kids are awesome, and I love to&nbsp;be around them as adults. They are fun, communicative, and love God, and we are good&nbsp;friends with them. I love this age! The hardest part of parenting is the emotional stress&nbsp;and worry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How does motherhood influence your blog? Your business decisions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am writing about a life that I lived for 28 years&#8211;as a coach\u2019s wife and sports mom&#8211;and&nbsp;am still living as my daughter coaches. Other than that, motherhood doesn\u2019t really affect&nbsp;what I do because my kids are out of the house. However, there are times (because&nbsp;they live nearby) that an emergency arises, or when they need me that I will drop my&nbsp;work and help them. When my oldest spent a week in the hospital with viral meningitis&nbsp;over a year ago, I took my computer with me and worked by her bedside as she laid in&nbsp;the hospital. Have computer, will travel!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>If you could tell a new mother ONE thing and only one thing what would&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Laugh with your kids every day. (I\u2019m sure you get enough parental advice from&nbsp;everyone else!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Tell us about your Sports Parents Guide. Did you enjoy working on it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jbmthinks.com\/sports-parenting-survival-guides\/\">My Sports Parenting Guides<\/a> are a series of 7 Survival Guides for moms, coach\u2019s wives,&nbsp;<\/span>parents of children athletes, and parents of teen athletes. Also, I have a bi-weekly&nbsp;podcast, a weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/jbmthinks\/feed\">YouTube video clip<\/a>, and a one-hour course on Navigating Youth&nbsp;Sports Politics. I have much more in the works, including two courses for coaches and&nbsp;leagues to use in educating sports parents about positive sports parenting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What does the future look like for you, your family and your business?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hmmm&#8230;.I can tell you that I will continue to spread the invitation to sports parents to be&nbsp;a part of the positive sports parenting tribe for as long as I can, but other than that, I have&nbsp;no crystal ball!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jbmthinks\">@jbmthinks<\/a> Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/jbmthinks.com\/\">http:\/\/jbmthinks.com\/<\/a> Contact: sportsparents@jbmthinks.com<br \/>\nAlso, you can find her on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sportsparenting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Janis-B-Meredith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-716\" alt=\"Janis B. 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