3 Not-so-secret Secrets about Parents - Best Stolen Ideas - Part 7

Published: Fri, 11/11/16

 
Happy Veterans Day! A sincere thank you to the men, women, and families who have served this great nation!
 
One of the favorite questions I ask every coach I interview is:
'What is the best thing you have ever learned or stolen from another coach?'​​​​​​​
As we wrap up this series, here are 3 really good nuggets about relating with parents and being a parent-coach:
  1. Always remember that everything a parent does – is because they love their child.  In return – as a coach you ask the parents to remember that as a coach – you have to worry about all the children in the program (not just their one kid they love.) – Rich Czeslawski
  2. David Klein learned from his Dad: ‘You can please all of  the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.’ Almost without exception every team has 1 or 2 negative parents that you cannot please, don't try to appease them and do the right things and stick to your guns.
  3. 3 things to say to your child after every game: - Dr. Lindsey Blom
    1. I love you
    2. I love to watch you play
    3. What do you want to eat?
A great resource to use as a coach to enhance your relationships with parents is from my good friend Janis Meredith - a very affordable book called 11 Habits for Happy & Positive Sports Parents. An effective use of these is to buy them for all the parents on your team and go through some key points in your pre-season parent meeting. If you buy 10 or more they are only $4 each.
Teams are not just made of coaches and players, they are a community of people supporting the same cause, so include the parents in your planning! It will enhance the experience for everyone. 
To check out the other posts in this series go to: winningyouthcoaching.com/blog/
 
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9 weeks in on my journey to turn around the culture of a team I help coach, you can follow along here: The Culture Journey
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WYC 097 – High School Football – Randy Jackson talks Culture Defeats Strategy

Coach Randy Jackson calls on his 26 years of coaching experience and research to share his ideas on how important culture and leadership are to a successful program, and what he has done to develop that successful culture in his own program. He shares the 7 core values his team created, and how his coaching staff evaluates each player 3x per year on a scale from 1-5 on each core value, and how that process has helped build a championship culture with his team. Good luck to his Mustangs as they are 9-1 and compete in the first round of their playoffs tonight!
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Craig Haworth is the founder of Winning Youth Coaching, a site dedicated to helping coaches and parents make youth sports an awesome experience for the youth and the parents.  He interviews coaches from around the world and posts them on his podcast, which currently has over 95 interviews and has been downloaded over 100,000 times. He writes a weekly note to coaches and parents. He is married to his high-school sweetheart and they share the blessing of 3 children and live in Franklin, TN. You can sign-up for his weekly note here, find him on twitter at @craighaworth1, or visit his website winningyouthcoaching.com.
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"
- Frederick Douglass