Sport and Parenting
Helping Your Child Achieve in Sport – Fifty Things You Can Do
Fifty tips for parents of young athletes, to help them get the most out of their chosen sport.
- Love them unconditionally.
- Support their coach.
- Accept that they can not win every time they compete.
- Allow them to be a kid and to have fun.
- Help them to develop as a person with character and values.
- Turn off as a sporting parent. Don’t make sport the one and only topic of conversation at the dinner table, in the car, etc.
- Don’t introduce your child as “This is my son the swimmer or Rugby player” – their sport is just something they do – it does not define them.
- Don’t do everything for them. Teach them responsibility and self management.
- Reward frequently for success and effort but make them small, simple, practical, and personal things. Kids don’t need a CD or $20 just for playing sport.
- Best of all reward them with what they really love…….your time! (more…)