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20 Mistakes Sports Parents Make With Their Kids Don T Fall Into These Sports Parenting Traps
20 Mistakes Parents Make With Their Kids In The World Of Sport
1. Lecturing their child about the sport's techniques and strategies when they never played the sport, or played at a low level.
2. Criticizing, judging or lecturing their child about their performance under pressure when they themselves have never competed, or competed at a low level, and do not understand the pressures of competition.?
3. Failing to create a supportive, organized environment the day of competitions.
4. Treating officials and staff with less than full respect.?
Betting Sports OnlineThe most important part to setting a game plan is setting a realistic and achievable goal. This is very important and ..... 5. Rushing their child's early sport technique development, when that should be the slowest, most careful period of all, to gain solid fundamentals that last a lifetime, which don't need to be corrected later in their career.
6. Placing unwanted pressure on their child by framing competitions as being "Must win", "Can't lose", "An important event", "Critical competition", and the like.
7. Pushing their child into a sport or competition before they are ready.?
8. Failing to see the value of sports lessons as preparation for life itself.?
9. Allowing their child to get away with poor behavior by making excuses for it, or by failing to exert parental standards.
10. Failing to match their child's sport choice to their temperament, sensibilities, talents and values.
11. Projecting their own insecurities, worries and nervousness about their child's performance onto their child, especially before a competition.
12. Not allowing their child to own their sport experience, and thereby learn from their mistakes, and instead doing everything for their child.
13. Performing a post-competition analysis sooner than their child would like it.?
14. Asking "Did you win?" after a competition, rather than saying something that carries less pressure.
15. Failing to listen and to allow their child to process their feelings after a difficult practice or stressful competition. ? 16. Smothering their child, by hovering around every sport activity their child attends, from practices to training session to competitions (known as being a Helicopter Parent).
17. Failing to support or respect the coaching staff.?
18. Displaying poor sportsmanship. ? 19. Failing to be a role model for the behaviors they want their children to display.
20. Taking it as personal criticism when their child makes requests for them to modify their parenting behavior.
So there you have it, the 20 mistakes sports parents make with their kids. To see our larger article with the 77 mistakes parents make, go here:
http://www.mentalgamecoaching.com/IMGCAArticles/ParentsAndSports/MistakesParentsMake.html
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Copyright ? Bill Cole, MS, MA 2006 All rights reserved.
Bill Cole, MS, MA is one of the world's leading mental game coaches who consults with athletes of all levels including children, amateurs and professionals. Mr. Cole is the founder and President of the International Mental Game Coaching Association, the global leader in certification of mental game coaches. Read over 400 free articles on sports psychology at http://www.mentalgamecoaching.com/index.html or call 408-294-2776 for more information.
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