Filling Emotional Tanks When Coaching Your Own Child
Coaching your own child can offer some of life's greatest moments, though it requires a delicate balance between coaching and parenting. Make it clear to your child when you are in coach "mode." Be sensitive to favoring or penalizing you child.
Serving as both coach and parent gives you even greater than usual influence on your child's emotional tank! Emphasize that you love your child, regardless of on-field performance.
When your child is still young enough, it can be effective to have one piece of clothing that signifies when you're in coaching mode. You can say, "Now I'm putting on my coach hat, where I need to give equal attention to everyone." When coaching your older children, leave your coaching mode at the field, so your children don't feel they are being coached by you 24/7.
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