A friend of mine recently attended a coaching class where they handed out a list of ‘Dead Words’ for coaches to share with their parents. The idea is you ask your parents not to say certain words in an attempt to stop them from sideline coaching or distracting the players too much. It’s an interesting idea.
Entries Tagged ‘sideline-behavior’
Easing Up On Youth Referees
Over at The RefBlog, The Ref has been doing a ‘best of 2007′ series and he highlighted an excellent post he did last year about how the worst behavior exhibited towards referees seems to come from youth matches, not adult now professional matches:
The only thing that really caught my attention to the article was at [...]
Do Fences Make Good Parents?
A couple of years ago, due to abusive behavior by parents at youth (American) football games, a local recreation department erected chain link fences to keep the parents away from the players, coaches, and officials. Clearly the move was meant to get the parents attention to how bad things were getting, and I hope it [...]
What Parents Should Shout From The Sidelines
One other bad part of being away from the blog these few weeks is I didn’t have time to read any other blogs either. So I started catching up on some RSS feeds and like always, Josh has a post up that just screams ‘link to me’
Remember the friendly soccer mom who was having [...]
