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 ‘soccer-parents’
Soccer Parents From Hell
You might think that loud obnoxious parents are ‘Soccer Parents From Hell’ in a coach’s eyes, but they aren’t. Debra-Lynn explains about true soccer parents from hell over at Journey in Parenting:
We are the parents who make the coach think really hard about retiring, the ones who always forget to pay our fees, who can [...]
Halftime LOTG Quiz
ÂÂÂÂYou’ve all been at a match like this. The kids are playing, trying their best, and a parent or two are stalking up and down the touchline, shouting instructions to their children constantly. Sometimes their kids ignore them, other times they are distracted by it. Their coach seems indifferent to it. You want to say [...]
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 [...]
Youth Soccer Players Go On Strike In Italy
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Via The Offside, we find some Italian youth soccer playerÂs who came up with a new way to get their parents attention about inappropriate touchline behavior:
It’s not just in the US that parents scream and yell, attack coaches and officials, and generally just embarrass the hell out of their kids (in addition to, you know, [...]
Happy Thanksgiving 2007!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! As anyone involved in youth soccer will tell you, while we have PLENTY to be thankful for, the #1 thing most soccer parents with kids on travel teams are thankful for on Thanksgiving is the Fall season just ended the weekend before! Our first free weekend in a LONG time is coming [...]
Model Soccer Parents
Old Soccer Guy has a post up about his U18 parents being model soccer parents. If you’re curious what a soccer coach looks for from parents, especially at the select/travel soccer level, he tells you. But even for those of you with kids in Recreational soccer, many of these things are important. So to his [...]
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 [...]
How Would You Explain Offside To A Soccer Mom?
Offside confuses soccer parents – there is no denying it. I chuckle because I see some soccer parents who played AND have coached, yelling at referees for offside when it clearly wasn’t. So how would you explain offside to soccer parents? Josh at Throughball found a soccer parent asking that very question though he’s not [...]
Sit Ubu Sit!
Best parent/player moment of the tournament I was at this weekend? I’m watching a hard fought U11 Girls Challenge match. Scoping out the competition for my own U11 team since most of the teams at the tournament are in our league. The game was VERY close and the parents were getting louder and louder. Some [...]
Soccer Parents – Why They Do What They Do
Old Soccer Guy has some thoughts up on why some soccer parents act the way they do. I think he’s definitely hit on a few of the more common ones, though I think there are dozens, if not hundreds, of other reasons out there too:
there is an abundance of moms who had some opportunities but [...]
A Blog For Soccer Parents
Sometimes my niche of youth soccer blogging can seem awfully lonely! So I was happy to find another soccer parent has joined the fray to try and share some of their soccer parent experiences and advice. The aptly named Soccer Parents blog came online this month hoping to help soccer parents avoid common mistakes.
We’ve been [...]
Beware The Muffia
Anyone who is involved in a youth sport knows that not all parents are created equal. Dealing with those select few can be trying at best and oh-my-god-I’m-gonna-commit-hari-kari at worst. The folding chair mecca that is the youth soccer sideline can be full of surprises and intrigue. I wrote a fun post about the various [...]
USYS Parent Education Program
The national US soccer associations are coming out with some very useful materials for parent and coach education.
