Best Parental Practices (Team) – parents of youth
athletes have a choice. They can be an asset or
detriment to team chemistry and development. Be a
“team” parent and find out how you can best support
the team and coaches. This goes a long way on the
coaching tree.
Like any other profession, the coaches talk. Make no
mistake on this point. Coaches (from rookie up to high
school varsity) know and talk to each other about who
the team-oriented parents are and who the problem
parents are from previous seasons. Once you get
tagged as a problem parent that can be a hard label to
shake. Take the long view and work hard to be a
parent the coaches look forward to working with every
season.
