Teaching Parents to be Better Sports: Christian Science Monitor
By Lisa Cohn, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
During a girls’ soccer game in Portland, Ore., Sue Mak gaped in horror as the coach for the opposing team screamed at his 9-year-old daughter for playing poorly, and then ripped off her shirt. The girl wrapped her arms around her bare chest and cried.
“I was mortified,” says Ms. Mak, a volunteer coach for more than 20 years. “I stopped the game and saw to it that the father never coached again.”
While this is an extreme example, it illustrates the intense desire that some of today’s parents have for their kids to excel in sports and attract recognition as top athletes as all- stars, heavy hitters, offensive greats, and most-valuable players.
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