Tag: Rugby Union

Fifty tips for parents of young athletes, to help them get the most out of their chosen sport.

1. Love them unconditionally.
2. Support their coach.
3. Accept that they can not win every time they compete.
4. Allow them to be a kid and to have fun.
5. Help them to develop as a person with character and values.
6. Turn off as a sporting parent. Don’t make sport the one and only topic of conversation at the dinner table, in the car, etc.
7. Don’t introduce your child as “This is my son the swimmer or Rugby player” – their sport is just something they do – it does not define them.
8. Don’t do everything for them. Teach them responsibility and self management.
9. Reward frequently for success and effort but make them small, simple, practical, and personal things. Kids don’t need a CD or $20 just for playing sport.
10. Best of all reward them with what they really love…….your time!
    

The greatest challenge sport has ever faced in upon us.

It affects coaches.

It affects teachers.

It affects sports scientists and sports medicine practitioners.

It affects sports administrators, managers and sporting organisation Board members.

It affects the parents, carers and partners of athletes.

Are you up to the challenge?

In part one of this article we looked at different types of Sporting Parents.

Here are a few more……see if you recognise anyone you know.

Talent Identification – the way we currently do it – doesn’t work.

Here are some things that do and some ideas on how to do it better.

Remember this:

• Leadership is about the future;
• Management is about the present;
• Education is about the past.

So what’s this got to do with why Talent ID programs in the Western world are dismal failures?

Want to know the Secret to Success in Sport?

There is one..there really is..and here it is for free.

Lots of sporting teams and professional sporting Clubs talk up having or wanting a “High Performance Culture”.

Do you have what it takes to create and sustain a High Performance Culture?

Think you’ve already got one??

Why? Because you’ve got a new gym and lots of expensive equipment? Because you’ve got some really talented players? Because you’ve just recruited a world class coach?

Think again………………..