I have seen it mentioned a few times on here questiong how comfortable parents are with their children's coaches and also the other way around- how open/ friendly a coach is with the parents. I am just curious as to what everyone's experience and comments are on this. As a parent, how trusting are you of your child's coach? Coaches, how friendly do you get with the parents? Where I coach, parents are very trusting of the coaches, they feel totally comfortable leaving their children in our supervision at camps, clinics and even sleepovers, and I would personally consider a few of them "good friends." I naively assumed this is the norm, but if it is not, why? Why do some parents allow their children to be coached by someone they would not trust outside of the gym? This has not been my experience, it just makes me wonder.