Is Coaching Your Child Right?

This is a very hard question to answer an I am going to give you mine based on my own experience.

When I was a child and wrestled my father coached me through the years of his experience. Once I had gotten to the age he had quit wrestling and he felt he had no futher knowledge to offer he passed the coaching on to someone else, but not the support and the parenting. Even though my college years I still would look in the stands before each match to see him sitting there. He gave me encourgement and strengh and I felt safe because he was there and I wanted to wrestle good for him and me. Those are the moments I remember as a child and the one's that are special to me.

My father is gone now and I have been coaching my son for the last five years with the same reasoning behind it. My son is in High School now and has another coach and he has grown and learned from this coach, but he still looks in the stands as I once did and I feel proud that I had the opportunity to be there for him.

Do I think parents that coach can have a possitive affect on there kids......yes I do.