This leads to injury, over-training, burn out and drop out. Coaches and parents need to remember why they became involved in sport and why they want children to play. Some of it is instructional, with help in coaching t-ball, soccer, basketball or whatever. Other resources relate to communication skills, sportsmanship and the like. A chat room is also available.
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I'm the son of a coach. I was a coach. Every boy I've ever had was a coach. But more importantly, coaches have made athletics the most cost-efficient and educationally accountable aspect of secondary school. Nowhere in education do you find it as often as you do in school athletics that teachers are teaching what they want to teach, to students who are learning what they want to learn, and both are willing to work hour after hour on their own time, after school, to make certain that everything that can be taught is taught and everything that can be learned is learned.