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First child: Attend all games & practices. Join club. Become team manager or assistant coach. Buy meat, Sell burgers on game days. Encourage other parents to help. Set up fields. Buy new cameras. Video every game and take lots of photos.
Second Child: Watch some games & some practices. Cook burgers when asked.
Third child: Watch the occasional game. Drop kid at practice and collect afterwards. Do not get out car. Wash Jerseys and supply half time oranges when rostered on and reminded by team manager.
Fourth child: It is not until halfway through the season that you are even aware that they are playing and still are not sure what sport it is. Watch one game per season. Hope their practice is on the same night as one of the other kids. Child gets lift home from practice and games. Buy a burger and talk enthusiastically to the parents who have only their first child in sport.
Corrollary (sp?)
Pre-school sports: Parent participates
Ele school club sports: Parent watches at practice
Middle school club: Parent watches practice at his/her own risk of embarassing child
High School sports: Parents useful for: fundraising, selling concessions, driving.
I coach youth baseball for 10-11 years olds and by that age very few of the parents stay. At the practice I had last week there were 9 kids there; one was my kid and one was the other coach's kid. Out of the 7 remaining kids only 1 had a parent who stayed.
Did this bother you?
My kids are 8 and 6 and one parent always stays at practice, and at least one parent goes to every game.
My husband coached a soccer team of 7 year olds and we were really surprised that a lot of the parents dropped off and left. It was completely different than baseball at the same age, where all of the parents stayed and most helped with practice.
My kids are 8 and 6 and one parent always stays at practice, and at least one parent goes to every game.
My husband coached a soccer team of 7 year olds and we were really surprised that a lot of the parents dropped off and left. It was completely different than baseball at the same age, where all of the parents stayed and most helped with practice.
Already at their young ages we've had some wonderful teams with great kids, and involved and helpful parents; and some really bad ones where no one volunteers to help, the parents all leave, and the kids misbehave. What a difference some parent involvement makes!
Ya right. If any parents are at practice they certainly aren't going to talk. They're usually completely absorbed on their smartphones reading facebook or some other useless website.
Here's a shot I took at my kid's soccer game (not practice). This woman was on facebook while her own daughter was in the game.
^maybe she was posting a picture of her daughter for all the world to see.
That is possible but I've seen her before on facebook. Besides, couldn't that wait until after the game? Things happen in soccer pretty fast - she could have easily missed her kid making a great play.
Already at their young ages we've had some wonderful teams with great kids, and involved and helpful parents; and some really bad ones where no one volunteers to help, the parents all leave, and the kids misbehave. What a difference some parent involvement makes!
I guess I don't exactly understand the point of the parents being at pratice- if I wanted to be at every practice, wouldn't I have signed up to be the coach? (Which I have, numerous times for my kids but that's besides the point.
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