{"id":3369,"date":"2013-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hideme.webinology.net\/nation:8443\/nation2021\/what-do-you-do-when-your-child-doesnt-like-his-coach\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:54:40","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-your-child-doesnt-like-his-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachup.com\/nation\/articles\/what-do-you-do-when-your-child-doesnt-like-his-coach","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Do When Your Child Doesn&#8217;t Like His Coach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What Do You Do When Your Child Doesn&#8217;t Like His Coach?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through 20 years of sports parenting, I&#8217;ve had my kids coached by at least 80 coaches. A variety of just about every kind you can imagine. We&#8217;ve had emotional coaches who love to yell, the poker-faced coach who doesn&#8217;t say much at all, the I-want-make-everyone-happy coach, and the I-only-care-about-winning coach. Even though it&#8217;s been quite a parade of coaching personalities and styles, I have concluded that there are really only two kinds of coaches: the ones we like and the ones we don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>You will undoubtedly have both. When that day comes&#8211;the day when your child comes home and says, &#8220;I can&#8217;t stand my coach!&#8221;&#8211;what will you do? Perhaps you&#8217;d be like one mom I know who said, &#8220;Tough. Deal with it. You are never going to like everyone who is in authority over you. You need to learn to work it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe your approach is a bit gentler like another mom I know, &#8220;This is a great opportunity to learn a life skill. You will be put in situations where you have to work with people you don&#8217;t like your whole life.&#8221; Consider this strategy when your child tells you he doesn&#8217;t like his coach.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let him vent his frustration without judging his feelings.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss the situation with your child. Is a coach\/parent or coach\/player confrontation needed?<\/li>\n<li>If a confrontation does not help the situation&#8211;and moral or abusive issues are not the problem&#8211;then you and your child may simply have to agree to disagree with the coach.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your conversations about the coach between you and your child; don&#8217;t complain to other parents.<\/li>\n<li>If you agree to disagree with the coach and stay on the team, accept the situation and move on; don&#8217;t keep bringing up the unfairness of the situation to your child.<\/li>\n<li>If you need to, vent your frustrations with your spouse or a friend (not two or three or four). Then leave it at home when you go to games.<\/li>\n<li>Teach your child to treat the coach with respect, even if he feels the coach doesn&#8217;t like him.<\/li>\n<li>Model that respect for the coach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there are definitely some things you should <em>not<\/em> do when your child feels a coach&#8217;s dislike.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stir up trouble behind the coach&#8217;s back. If you have a problem, at least have the guts to confront the coach face to face instead of behind his back.<\/li>\n<li>Try to get the coach fired. If you try to get rid of a coach because you do not like him, what are you teaching your child? To &nbsp;get rid of people we don&#8217;t like? I&#8217;ve seen many parents complain to the administration and try to get coaches fired simply because their child was not playing enough or playing a certain position. How does that child ever learn to fight her own battles?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This may be hard to believe, but there&#8217;s always something your child can learn from his coach (even if it&#8217;s simply how <em>not<\/em> to coach). Help him look for the good in people &nbsp;and see this as an opportunity to learn how to work with someone who is difficult. If your child can learn this while he&#8217;s young, and with you helping him unpack his thoughts and feelings, he will have a head start in learning life skills for future bosses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Do You Do When Your Child Doesn&#8217;t Like His Coach? Through 20 years of sports parenting, I&#8217;ve had my kids coached by at least 80 coaches. A variety of just about every kind you can imagine. 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Division 3 semifinal tonight at WPI\u2019s Harrington Auditorium. \u201cThey\u2019re into it,\u201d Crusaders coach Jeff Bajema said. \u201cThey\u2019re having the time of their lives right now.\u201d Senior guard Taylor Bajema scored 24 points to lead the second-seeded Crusaders, the defending champions who will play in their third straight final. Six-foot-9 Hans Miersma and Colin Richey each added 15 points before the starters were pulled midway through the third quarter. \u201cThese hoops were great to us today,\u201d Taylor Bajema said. \u201cEverybody was hitting 3s, and when we\u2019re on fire, we just don\u2019t miss. We\u2019ve got a lot of great shooters on this team.\u201d Whitinsville Christian (20-2) faces top-seeded Quaboag in the final at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Fitchburg State. The Crusaders likely will be without starting forward Antonio Estrella after the sophomore suffered what appeared to be a serious ankle injury in the first quarter. Senior guard Jose Morales (8 points) and younger brother Brandon Morales (9 points) carried the scoring for Keefe Tech, who finished 18-3. \u201cWe\u2019ve started a full junior pack in recent games in the tournament, and we didn\u2019t really think this was going to be the season,\u201d said Keefe Tech coach Paul Cavicchi, whose Broncos lose one key player to graduation, Jose Morales. \u201cWe\u2019re real happy with where we are\u2026 We\u2019re going to bring a lot of kids back, and I think the experience is going to be good for them.\u201d Miersma quickly capitalized on the Crusaders\u2019 huge height advantage, winning the opening tip and then getting free on the right baseline on the game\u2019s first possession. After receiving the ball, the senior center promptly drove for a dunk, setting the tone early. \u201cThis height doesn\u2019t come around often,\u201d coach Bajema said. 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Division 3 semifinal tonight at WPI\u2019s Harrington Auditorium. \u201cThey\u2019re into it,\u201d Crusaders coach Jeff Bajema said. \u201cThey\u2019re having the time of their lives right now.\u201d Senior guard Taylor Bajema scored 24 points to lead the second-seeded Crusaders, the defending champions who will play in their third straight final. Six-foot-9 Hans Miersma and Colin Richey each added 15 points before the starters were pulled midway through the third quarter. \u201cThese hoops were great to us today,\u201d Taylor Bajema said. \u201cEverybody was hitting 3s, and when we\u2019re on fire, we just don\u2019t miss. We\u2019ve got a lot of great shooters on this team.\u201d Whitinsville Christian (20-2) faces top-seeded Quaboag in the final at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Fitchburg State. The Crusaders likely will be without starting forward Antonio Estrella after the sophomore suffered what appeared to be a serious ankle injury in the first quarter. Senior guard Jose Morales (8 points) and younger brother Brandon Morales (9 points) carried the scoring for Keefe Tech, who finished 18-3. \u201cWe\u2019ve started a full junior pack in recent games in the tournament, and we didn\u2019t really think this was going to be the season,\u201d said Keefe Tech coach Paul Cavicchi, whose Broncos lose one key player to graduation, Jose Morales. \u201cWe\u2019re real happy with where we are\u2026 We\u2019re going to bring a lot of kids back, and I think the experience is going to be good for them.\u201d Miersma quickly capitalized on the Crusaders\u2019 huge height advantage, winning the opening tip and then getting free on the right baseline on the game\u2019s first possession. After receiving the ball, the senior center promptly drove for a dunk, setting the tone early. \u201cThis height doesn\u2019t come around often,\u201d coach Bajema said. Jose Morales responded with a 3-pointer from the left side for the Broncos, but Taylor Bajema, who scored 12 first-quarter points, came back to drain a trey. Whitinsville led, 25-10, after one, then went on a 12-3 spurt to start the second. Miersma\u2019s inside bucket off an inbounds pass made it 37-13. Miersma scored on a putback as time expired to extend the Crusaders\u2019 halftime lead to 45-19. Whitinsville Christian kept hitting after intermission, starting with an 18-0 run, with Richey hitting three 3-pointers. The Broncos finally broke their scoreless drought five minutes into the second half after Anthony Morales\u2019 no-look pass in traffic earned Devin Arroyo an open look inside. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working on defense all year, and we\u2019re finally executing,\u201d Taylor Bajema said. \u201cOur main goal is just to play great defense, and we\u2019ve been doing that the past three weeks and held a lot of good teams pretty low.\u201d A highlight for Keefe Tech came at the end of the third quarter, when Wilfredo DeJesus jumped into a passing lane for a steal and heaved a shot from half court, swishing it at the buzzer. But that 3-pointer only left the Broncos trailing, 74-28, entering the fourth quarter. 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