The Real Role Of Sporting Parents – Being The Sporting Parents Your Kids Really Need You To Be.

Having delivered hundreds of sporting parents seminars all over the world, I am often asked, “What is the real role of sporting parents?

Is it to merely pay sporting registration fees and coaching costs?

Is it just to be the “bus-driver” ferrying kids to and from training and competition?

Is it being an A.T.M. – whose role it is to purchase the latest and most expensive sporting equipment for their children?

Or is being a sporting parent doing more than just opening your wallet, driving your car and cheering from the sideline?

The key to being a great sporting parent is very simple…FOCUS ON THE PARENTING – NOT THE SPORT.

By that I mean, the best thing you can do to help your kids realize their potential in sport, is to be the best parent you can be.

Help them to develop as human beings.

Give them guidance and leadership to help them become better people.

Create the environment where they can realize their full potential as human beings – and as sportspeople.

Provide them with the opportunity to learn and to live values: values like honesty, integrity, humility, respect, courage, discipline.

Encourage them to become INDEPENDENT.

Teach them the importance of accepting responsibility and accountability.

And most importantly, give them unconditional love and acceptance for who they are – not for what they do.

Whilst it seems the way to be a “perfect” sporting parent is to spend money on your sporting children, what they really need is YOU – your time, your love, your acceptance, your parenting.

I’ve put together several informative videos on sports parenting on my YOU TUBE Channel 

Check them out here:

HOW DO I KNOW IF MY CHILD IS TALENTED? 

THREE IMPORTANT TIPS FOR SPORTING PARENTS.

PHRASES SPORTING PARENTS NEED TO AVOID

WORKING WITH YOUR CHILD’S COACH

TALENT IS OVER-RATED

 

Wayne Goldsmith