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Managing my son in the team

Robert Stokes

Dear all

I'm taking on the challenge of managing my sons team next season, u13’s. We have a coach coming in too who will take the mid week trainings.

im looking for advice on how to manage working with my son and making sure both get along ! And not fight the whole time. 

Any advice/tips on how to make sure it works well for both please?

thank you 

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    The reason I’m a coach is that I took the plunge and started managing my son’s team when it was created at U7’s, we’ll be U10’s this coming season. To be honest, initially I was quite him, but I soon learned the hard way to park that method of coaching and treat him like every other boy in the team. It’s really important to do this. 

    if he has a bad game, I don’t immediately jump on him the second it’s just us in the car on the way home. I give it a day or two and try to suggest how he might improve if similar situations occurred again. I don’t sugar coat my assessment but I try to be constructive and encouraging. On the flip side if he’s had an absolute blinder, I’m the first sing praises to him. 

    Most coaches kids feel the burden already, first to arrive, last to leave, help setting up, think they’ll never win a trophy because their parent doesn’t want to be accused of bias. I don’t agree with that last past, if my son has done well enough to earn Player of the Match or Trainer of the week then they get the award. Hope this helps. 

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    The reason I’m a coach is that I took the plunge and started managing my son’s team when it was created at U7’s, we’ll be U10’s this coming season. To be honest, initially I was quite him, but I soon learned the hard way to park that method of coaching and treat him like every other boy in the team. It’s really important to do this. 

    if he has a bad game, I don’t immediately jump on him the second it’s just us in the car on the way home. I give it a day or two and try to suggest how he might improve if similar situations occurred again. I don’t sugar coat my assessment but I try to be constructive and encouraging. On the flip side if he’s had an absolute blinder, I’m the first sing praises to him. 

    Most coaches kids feel the burden already, first to arrive, last to leave, help setting up, think they’ll never win a trophy because their parent doesn’t want to be accused of bias. I don’t agree with that last past, if my son has done well enough to earn Player of the Match or Trainer of the week then they get the award. Hope this helps. 

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