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 The best
way to help your child achieve goals and reduce
the natural fear of failure is through positive
reinforcement. No one likes to make a mistake. If
your child does make one, remember that this is a
learning experience. You and your child should
learn to treat success and failure as learning
experiences and not life changing situations.
Encourage your child's efforts and point out the
positive things. The coach is the one you have
assigned to judge a swimmer's performance and
technique. Your role is to provide love and
support regardless of
outcome.
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Parent and
Coach...The Other Stuff |
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 Coaching is about
more than athletes, practices, and competition. As
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke's hugely successful
basketball coach said, it's also about "the other
stuff." For coaches of club
teams, that means parents.
“All that craziness,” is how
Monica Teuscher describes the rituals of other
parents who nervously follow their children’s
swimming development. Teuscher, mother of
Cristina, a 1996 and 2000 Olympian, never owned a
stopwatch and rarely bought a meet program. She
didn’t track her daughter’s times, yell during her
races, or seek out her coach after practices for
private chats. During swim meets, she went off by
herself to read or knit, only to be amused when
other parents gave her a rundown on Cristina's
swims, complete with split times.
"I thought it was important that I
was there, but for support, not for coaching or to
add pressure," Teuscher explains. "My job was to
take my daughters (older daughter Carolina also
swam) out for a good meal after they raced. The
last thing we talked about was swimming." Read
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