“I am never the type of parent to complain…” “I really appreciate all you do for the boys, but…” “I know I shouldn’t be worried about playing time, but I’m really worried about my daughter…” If you are a coach you have likely got one of these messages from a parent....
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Six Habits to Improve Your Athletes Sleep
The Cost of Wakefulness In 2003, researchers from Penn and Harvard Medical Schools wanted to see if people could avoid the “recommended” amount of sleep without suffering serious negative consequences. Over a two-week period, the researchers studied four groups of...
The Five Conversations I Want to Have with Parents
It’s Not About the Shark In 1974, the young film director, Steven Spielberg, faced a costly, growing problem. He was trying to make a movie about a shark, but he didn’t have a working shark. The mechanical sharks they had built for the movie Jaws wouldn’t stop...
Traumatic or Just Stressful: How to Know When to Pull Your Kid Off the Team
Rats and Depression In 1967, Martin Seligman, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, started some unique research on depression. Seligman and his colleagues created an experiment in which two rats were housed in bordering cages. In Cage One, when the rat...
3 Reasons Coaches Should Listen to Parents’ Concerns
Even About Things Parents Shouldn’t Be Concerned About 5 Minute Read or Listen on iTunes “I would like to meet with you to discuss my child.” Oh, the dreaded text a coach gets the evening after a hard practice or game! This text or email can lead to a few sleepless...
5 Commitments Coaches Can Make to Work with Parents
The New Challenge: Calling Parents Up, Not Out Years ago, when I was coaching in Ireland, I had a much different criticism of parents in sports. Generally, with some exceptions, the parents were uninvolved and uninterested in their son’s basketball games. Basketball...
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