How do we understand parents?
Parents can either be the greatest facilitator in the development of the child or they can be the greatest hindrance in the development of the child. parents need to help the coach and act as a teammate in the development of the child this equates to positive talk helping them get to practices, helping them deal with bad losses, all of the characteristics that help them become a player. Parents are the back bone of support or the strongest of facilitators or they can be the debilitate, the destroyer of development. They have a role of not being critical or derogatory or comment in negative ways about performance, they need to be supportive and that’s their role. Help your child by being positive with support.