Fastpitch Parents

50 Tips for Helping Your Child Achieve

I recently came across a wonderful article for fastpitch parents.  This article includes 50 things you can do to help your child achieve in sports.

Here’s an excerpt from that article…

Helping Your Child Achieve in Sport – Fifty Things You Can Do

By Wayne Goldsmith

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!

Read the full article HERE

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