Be a sports parent with good credit
June 18, 2012
Is your child giving you credit for being a good sports parent? Or are you operating in the red with your negative behavior?
Having good credit means your child trusts that you will not embarrass him on the sidelines and knows you are a positive supporter. It means that you will be a positive voice as they play, thinking of other players, not just your own child.
Operating in the red means you are behaving in a way that inhibits her performance and could even embarrass her. It means you are more concerned about the Win, about your child looking good, about your child’s performance.
When you operate in the black and have good credit with your child, it also means that those times when you do blow it will not put you in the red with your kid because you have build up so much good credit.
What does it take to build up good credit and make your child proud? What do you have to do to earn credibility with your child in the sports parenting arena?
No, not a letter of recommendation, leave that to your employer. Neither trying to get a free credit check. Leave that to the banks.
Maybe you don’t know. Maybe you should ask your child how to garner his appreciation and earn credibility. How does he want you to behave?
This young softball player knows what she wants in a a sports parent. And I think she hits the nail on the head.
She is speaking to sports parents. To YOU.
Please take a minute and watch:
Maybe it’s time sports parents start listening more to what their kids think about their parents’ behavior.
What do you think?
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June 18, 2012 at 9:14 am
She ruins it with the “Mexican” comment.
Yeah, I didn’t like that either. However, it seems she has hispanic in her, so I figured she was speaking of her own ethnicity. Put that aside, and it’s all true.
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June 21, 2012 at 4:20 pm
It amazes me how aggressive parents can get at sports games, especially in full contact sports like football and hockey. But encouraging a pitcher to beam the batter? Let’s just hope there isn’t a parent on the other side of the fence telling the players to storm the mound.
It is sad, isn’t it, Jodi? What a poor example that parent was setting for his child and all the other kids around him.
Being by the fence might give parents an adrenaline rush too but being a parent is a task demanding much more responsibility. You are ought not to behave like any other spectator.