Sounds good approach there for you 👍.....can I ask what you feel about gyms that do not allow any parents in to ever watch any practice and who also don't welcome many questions....in this day and age is the the norm in many places?....dont think to many parents want to watch more than the very...
In most cases you are talking about 7 to 12 year olds so it's age where these 'kids' (not high performance athletes...but kids) are at a critical age in their development so the culture imho needs to "children first" and that can't be the case where parents are kept at such arms length and...
Wow....I'm very curious how the survey went? How did the club react when they heard you were doing one? What was their reaction, response when you gave them the responses?....do you work at the club? Just that parents here might be run from the club if they did one themselves ...but if you have...
Yeah it's very much the case is this sport...some clubs are great at welcoming parents but most prefer the total opposite and some will frown upon patents who even chat to each other in the car park at pick up....it's sad really but mostly it's the perfered thing from the clubs point of view. If...
Hi, yeah.....this is normal. Well normal for the sport which isn't "normal" in the world of all sports but it is what it is. The divide or disconnect it not imagined, it's just the way things are. Some coaches are the exception and try to bring everyone on the journey. I wonder which style has...
Definitely need to consider how many kids are in the group and also how much over lap of groups there is as often coaches have to cover 2 groups at the same time for part of the time anyway....a good gym that is genuiely interested in actually developing and supporting the competitive kids will...