Post by The Coach on Nov 18, 2008 13:01:36 GMT -5
1) Always remember that children tend to exaggerate, both when praised and when criticized. Temper your reactions when your children bring home tales of woe, or heroics.
2) Try your best to be completely honest about your child's athletic ability, his competitive attitude, his sportsmanship, and his actual skill level.
3) Be helpful, but don't coach on the way to the gym or on the way back...or ever at breakfast.
4) Teach her to enjoy the thrill of competition. Don't say, "Winning doesn't matter," Because it does.
5) And hear this parents: Try not to relive your athletic life through your child in a way that creates pressure. Don't pressure her because of your pride.
6) Don't compete with the coach. Remember in many cases the coach becomes a hero to his athletes, a person who can do no wrong.
7) Don't compare the skill, courage, or attitudes of your child with that of the other members of the team, at least not in his hearing.
8) You should also get to know the coach so you can be sure his philosophy, attitudes, ethics, and knowledge are such that you are happy to expose your child to him.
9) Make sure your child knows that win, lose, scared or heroic, you love her, appreciate their efforts and are not disappointed in them.
10) Make a point of understanding courage, and the fact that it is relative. Some of us climb mountains but fear a fight. Some of us fight but turn to jelly if a bee buzzes nearby. A child must know: Courage is not absence of fear, but rather it is doing something in spite of fear.
2) Try your best to be completely honest about your child's athletic ability, his competitive attitude, his sportsmanship, and his actual skill level.
3) Be helpful, but don't coach on the way to the gym or on the way back...or ever at breakfast.
4) Teach her to enjoy the thrill of competition. Don't say, "Winning doesn't matter," Because it does.
5) And hear this parents: Try not to relive your athletic life through your child in a way that creates pressure. Don't pressure her because of your pride.
6) Don't compete with the coach. Remember in many cases the coach becomes a hero to his athletes, a person who can do no wrong.
7) Don't compare the skill, courage, or attitudes of your child with that of the other members of the team, at least not in his hearing.
8) You should also get to know the coach so you can be sure his philosophy, attitudes, ethics, and knowledge are such that you are happy to expose your child to him.
9) Make sure your child knows that win, lose, scared or heroic, you love her, appreciate their efforts and are not disappointed in them.
10) Make a point of understanding courage, and the fact that it is relative. Some of us climb mountains but fear a fight. Some of us fight but turn to jelly if a bee buzzes nearby. A child must know: Courage is not absence of fear, but rather it is doing something in spite of fear.