Help! I hate my kid's coach

The ProScoutSports LLC blog ^ | April 28, 2015 | Todd Starowitz

[Norm Lenhart]

I agree that parent’s are a huge part of it. But there is no “Period/end of discussion”. Not when there are plenty of POS adults, coaching, teaching etc.

It sucks that you got that crap from some human garbage. I don’t blame you a bit. I feel the same way about every liberal that draws breath. they can all go to hell, rot and take their enablers with them. But that doesn’t change the fact that not every coach is a little angel. NOR the parents.

[NFHale]

That would “@DUDE!” then!!!

:^)

[Dr. Sivana]

how many parents did i throw out of a game..

more than i got fingers and toes..

Dang, my boy is in C ball (he's 6), but I can see the A ball kids playing in the adjacent field, and I never see ANY problems along those lines. We are also in Columbus, GA, where the team wins the state championship frequently, so it is quite competitive.

[Leto]

Well I had a couple of kids who participated in youth sports, 1 ended up being a D1 scholarship athlete, the other was strictly a rec player. I saw a LOT during the journey.

A lot of parents thought their little darling was bound to be a pro someday, they yelled at their kids, coaches, umpires we al. I saw very good coaches and awful coaches.

Couple of rules to live by:

Youth sports should be FUN not a job, if the coach is a jerk let your child leave the team.

I saw great youth coaches, they would teach the fundamentals properly and in a positive manner. Example when a child make an error, instead of haranguing to child he would (patiently) explain how to make the play correctly, he was teaching them how to succeed not blaming them for failing. It happened he was coaching his child’s summer team he also won 5 state championships at the HS he coached at, it was clear in the way he handled the kids why he was successful.

HAd another coach who wanted his daughter to be a star and relive his HS ‘glory days, one time the children had attended a school activity at an amusement park they kids weren’t ready to play that evening, the kids made a big effort to get to the game so the team wouldn’t have to forfeit, the coach was screaming at the kids for embarrassing him. My child was the best player on this team by a pretty wide margin, she finished the season and never went back to that team.

If your child is competitive they will self criticize, they care about their performance, no need for a poor coach to bully a kid and make them feel worse.