RESPONSIBLE SPORTS COACH

Responsible Sports Coach

Responsible Sports Coach

Introduction

Grace is a very talented badminton player, with a very dedicated mother who continuously urges her daughter to do her best at every match. The coach respects that, but he is trying to develop Grace's ability to make decisions independently that will help select appropriate times to go up towards the net during an attack and feels the mother's involvement is distracting.

Affect on Child by This Relationship

Parents tend to underestimate the influence they have on their child's sporting performance and experiences. Children pick up behaviour by watching and copying others, and it is their parents who introduce their children to sports in most cases, and their involvement can influence the child's experience and level of enjoyment. How concerned parents are in sports, can be looked at as a range of those who are uninvolved and to those over involved.

Hellstadt introduced three different types of parents in the year 1987. Those overly involved, moderately involved and under involved. His study showed that set of parents adequately involved facilitated a healthy sports career for their offspring's, yet those parents who were either under involved or too involved played a disruptive and problematic role.

Positive or moderate involvement of parents consists of verbal encouragement, supporting the child through ordeals, providing financial assistance and supplying resources that an athlete requires and letting their child make his own decisions regarding participation and strategies. Negative involvement is by parents who are under or overly involved, who dictate and have controlling behaviour, constantly pressuring their children to perform better and meet their high standards, expectations, interfere in the decision making process and are not emotionally supportive. Coach Brent feels that Grace's mother, even though intends well, this could affect Grace's performance. He needs Grace to be able to make her own decisions on and off the field as that would help her grow as a person and improve her skills. His coaching process's hindered, by the mother's presence at every game, who has constant talks with Grace to get her to perform better. Coach Brent understands that a child does not just play for competition because he has the required skills to train and coach individuals into performing their best.

Research repeatedly builds the connection between parent's involvement and the child's level of success and enjoyment in the sport he has opted to play. Hellstadt's theory said that overly concerned parents had negative involvement, and their high standards lead to pressure on a child player by taking out all the fun from sports. While another form, of harmful behaviour, which is under involvement of parents, lacked support which led to a child's lack of desire and passion to participate or succeed. Also without the needed financial support a child cannot participate even if he wants too.

However, parents who were positively associated and had moderate involvement, provided the proper equilibrium in their child's life by ensuring and facilitating enjoyment but also challenging the child in a way that he gets the opportunity ...