Every time you go to a sporting event to watch your child play, there\u2019s a good chance that you’ll feel a strange metamorphosis take place within you. In a way, it’s almost as if an alien takes over your body. Your calm gives way to crazy and you are not even sure how or why it happens. Why is this so?<\/p>\n
How is it that perfectly sane, under-control parents lose their cool so easily in the arena of youth sports and competition? In an effort to help you understand yourself and learn how to calm the crazy, I\u2019d like to suggest 10 reasons why the transformation takes place.<\/p>\n
Otherwise known as living vicariously through your child.<\/p>\n
Please remember that your child is not your clone and just may want to carve his or her own path.<\/p>\n
Fair is a very subjective term. What you call unfair may make total sense to your child\u2019s coach. Before you go throwing any regrettable words around, you might want to learn more about the situation.<\/p>\n
This may or may not also fall into the \u201cunfair\u201d category, but it definitely deserves extra attention because it’s probably the biggest cause for conflict in youth sports<\/strong>. No parent enjoys seeing their child sit on the bench too long. However, if your kids are little, you’re certainly justified in your frustration.<\/p>\n And you don\u2019t have to. But if you\u2019re going to make a fuss about it, you should probably be willing to volunteer to help out yourself.<\/p>\n For some reason, we have no problem yelling at officials when we don\u2019t agree with their calls — which is actually very odd when you think about it. Do you yell at everyone you don\u2019t agree with? Managers? Waiters? The banker at the drive-thru? Your child\u2019s teacher? Where do you draw the line?<\/p>\n Newsflash: yelling at your kids from the stands isn\u2019t going to motivate them to work harder. In fact, it will only embarrasses them.<\/p>\nBecause you don\u2019t agree with the coach\u2019s strategy <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Because you can\u2019t stand the officials\u2019 calls <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Because you feel your child isn\u2019t trying hard enough <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Because you want your child to make you proud <\/strong><\/h5>\n