Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Sports Parenting - Best Practices

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.