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by wernercd
3529 days ago
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You can be supportive and positive... and honest. Being supportive of shitty performances is dishonest and shitty. Then again... the "parents" of today cry fits if their kid plays like crap and doesn't get some sort of participation award. |
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A negative attitude coming from the parent can really upset the child and they won't learn anything from it.
As a coach I can't tell a parent what to say to their kid at home after they have a poor performance but I usually advise them to try cheer their kid up not cut them down.
It is my role as coach to provide the objective criticism not the parent's. It matters where the criticism comes from.
This is a part of the problem with the original article. Parents are too emotionally involved to teach their kids. They think their kid is special and then they constantly compare them against other kids and then they put the parental pressure on to the child. It isn't helping.