Teach Your Children

PARENTS: You are your child’s most important teacher.

- If you Blame others, your child will.
- If you Complain, your child will.
- If you Make Excuses, your child will.
- If you Point Fingers, your child will.

If you Accept Responsibility, your child will.

— Greg Berge (@gb1121) December 1, 2024

Parenting is hard. Sports parenting can be even harder. Families want what is best for themselves. That's rational, expected, and hard to accept at times. 

Imagine that the coach had to satisfy every parent with "enough" playing time, role, and recognition. There could never be enough to go around. 

And that's the unresolved dilemma, the problems of 'economics', the allocation of scarce resources. That's what makes coaching hard.