14 Points for Being a Key Parent
Quotes
“Coaching your child may confuse your child. Allow them to experience how to deal with others.”
Winning Thoughts
Find 14 keys to supporting your child’s participation in sports within these notes. The points include teaching them to be part of something bigger than themselves, along with an emphasis on allowing sports be their experience, rather than the parents.
Identify Emphasis Tags
● Coaching
● Balance
Knowledge for Coaches
● Tell your child how much you enjoyed watching them play.
● Teach them about hard work, being coachable, having a great attitude and
dealing with success and failure.
● Encourage your child to listen to the coach. Your job is to support.
● Don’t compare your child to another, encourage them to be their best.
● Keep your emotions under control. Would you want someone yelling at you at
work?
● When you allow your child to experience the highs and lows of sports, you are
preparing them for the ups and downs of life.