While watching sports on TV with your child, you see coverage of an incident, such as any of those listed in Positive Coaching Alliance’s Bottom 10 Moments in Sports or Top 10 Moments in Sports. Realizing that this is a “teachable moment,” how do you react?
Which of our Top 10 or Bottom 10 Moments provide the best opportunity for a conversation with your child? Why?
Using any of our Top 10 or Bottom 10 Moments as an example, what do you say to your child?
Do you want your child’s coach to discuss such incidents with your child? Why or why not?
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Posted by David Jacobson at 12/11/2008 08:39:44 AM |
i tell my sons and players...you can look up to the pros for their athletic ability but...don't look up to them for their personal lives. dont mold your life as theirs. be your own person and make honest moral dissions. there are exceptions possibly, but everyone has skeletons in their closet, so just admire their athletic ability. an example...arod...my kid loves him....after this summer's events i explained to him that alex is a person like us. although, he has great athletic ability, he made a poor life decision, and hurt a lot of people including his children. like his on field work...just dont look up to him as a person. also...there is nothing in the sports world worth doing what those "players" in those videos did. nothing! its not like they're in a fox hole in iraq fighting for their lives. they are fortunate to be playing a kids game for a living. perspective people. if it were up to me....life suspensions!!! there are many more athletes waiting to take their place and play with integrity.
Posted by: roy ( Email: ) at 12/11/2008 12:27 PM
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Best example of teaching moment. 5. Myron Rolle, a starting safety for the Florida State University football team, earns a Rhodes Scholarship, choosing to attend a final interview for the honor even at the expense of missing the first half of a critical conference game against Maryland.
I happened to attend this game in about 5 degree temp and it was one of the most exctitting moment in college sports. We were at the 10 yard line near the gate that he game out and the crowd went crazy upon his entrance.
I talked to my daughter about what sports should be, and how this student really understood the bigger picture. I also think his teammates showed great sportsmanship supporting his decision selflessly. We talked about what a great example of the balance that you need to be able to create in order to obtain this type of success. There most have been numerous moments of sacrafice that he had to make through out the years, and it was nice to see a young man who has clearly guided his life by making the right choice. Very exciting stuff.
On the negative, the CYO basketball dad was so sad it was alsmost laughable. The CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) most have been floored that not even they are exempt from this insane behavior. I have been using the following language with players (and more often with parents)...I do not care how good or bad the officials are. Our actions (and the manner in which we treat the officials) will not be reactions to the officials competancy, but rather it will be example that our organization, our team, our coaches, our children and our parents will be proud of, period.
Posted by: Chris Carroll ( Email: ) at 1/6/2009 7:28 AM
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