Comments on: Supporting Your Kids In Sports http://musings.moretimemoms.com/supporting-your-kids-in-sports.html Advice, Views, Tips and News For Parents Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Peter Gauthier http://musings.moretimemoms.com/supporting-your-kids-in-sports.html/comment-page-1#comment-175 Peter Gauthier Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:16:51 +0000 http://musings.moretimemoms.com/?p=126#comment-175 Hi Joanne. This is very good advice. I have been coaching hockey for 7 years now, as well as helping out less fortunate over summers, in the past. I am going to print this out and hand it out to all my parents on the team. If one parent follows this advice, then it would help out the whole team. Parents can be very difficult on coaches and their kids. I see in the tryouts, parents talking to their kids about what to do and not do on the ice, but going on and on. The poor kid just tunes them out. It really does not help. They should really just let their child go out and do their best without putting the added pressure on them. I have seen that backfire so many times. The player ends up being much better when the parent leaves them alone and they are more relaxed. Thanks for thinking of the kids. Peter Hi Joanne. This is very good advice. I have been coaching hockey for 7 years now, as well as helping out less fortunate over summers, in the past. I am going to print this out and hand it out to all my parents on the team. If one parent follows this advice, then it would help out the whole team. Parents can be very difficult on coaches and their kids. I see in the tryouts, parents talking to their kids about what to do and not do on the ice, but going on and on. The poor kid just tunes them out. It really does not help. They should really just let their child go out and do their best without putting the added pressure on them. I have seen that backfire so many times. The player ends up being much better when the parent leaves them alone and they are more relaxed.

Thanks for thinking of the kids.

Peter

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