Are you a parent looking for a program that has the right coach for your son or daughter? Are you a parent thinking about coaching your kid’s sports team and you want to be a better coach? Are you a parent looking for tips about how to maximize your children’s sports experience?
The website responsiblesports.com was developed to provide parents and coaches with information about how kids can learn valuable life lessons from sports when they are in an environment that promotes and displays responsibility.
The website provides tips for both parents and coaches about:
- Goal setting
- Sports safety
- How to talk to athletes about their performance
- ELM (Effort, Learning, Mistakes)
- Managing emotions
- Honoring the game
- Teaching kids how to work with coaches
- The coach and parent relationship
- The coach and athlete relationship.
The website is sponsored by Liberty Mutual and features resources such as videos, articles, and podcasts on a variety of sports related topics. In addition, parents and coaches have an opportunity to take a quiz that tests their knowledge of these essential topics.
Any parent who has children in sports programs will find information on the website that can make their children’s sports experience even more valuable.
Note: The information from responsiblesports.com remains relevant; however the website is no longer active (2015).