Sporting Parents – The Key to Sporting Success

Published by Wayne Goldsmith on June 10, 2020June 10, 2020

Sporting Parents.

Sporting parents are the key to sporting success.

They teach values.

They help to build and grow virtues.

They foster and nurture character.

Sporting parents teach important life lessons: lessons about responsibility, about accountability, about honesty and respect and integrity and humility.

Sporting parents working in partnership with coaches and athletes form a team: allies focused on helping the athlete to be all they can be.

It’s the partnership between the Coach, the Athlete and the Athlete’s Parents that creates the environment and provides the opportunity for the athlete to realize their potential.

Each of these “partners” have important roles and responsibilities to perform in the “partnership”:

• Coaches – to inspire athletes to be remarkable: to help them improve physically, mentally and technically;
• Athletes – to give all they can to everything they do: to choose to be all they can be on and off the court, in and out of the pool, etc.;
• Parents – to love, value and accept their child for who they are: to teach them the life lessons that will sustain them as athletes – and as people throughout their lives.

There is a phrase “As the twig is bent, so shall it grow”, i.e. it is the personal qualities and values a child develops before the age of ten that determines so much of the direction of the rest of their lives.

This means that parents can have a considerable impact and influence on helping their child to shape their own destiny.

In this Podcast Wayne discusses the key issues of Sport and Parenting and offers practical advice for the parents of kids who play sport at any level.

Check out our new online e-learning course Sporting Parents – Parenting Potential now available here:

https://courses.wgcoaching.com/courses/sporting-parents-parenting-potential

This unique online course features engaging, interesting and informative video lessons, downloadable charts, techniques and practical activities.

The course investigates some of the key issues in sport and parenting including:

• How can you help your child to learn to love sport?
• How can you encourage them to enjoy the experience of sport?
• How do you help them realize their complete sporting potential?