Back in the day when I was helping coach youth wrestling I witnessed kids being pushed to hard on tounament day and fans at mat side yelling like --well I don't know what but it really turned me off to coaching youth wrestling. I enjoyed places like Salina were coaches were able to coach and parents had to sit in the stands. Must tournaments try their best to keep order but it is very difficult to do so.

I have thought about it often and wondered what could be done to help situations of fans and parents getting carried away and I guess I came up with educating them and talking to them about conduct in parent meetings through the clubs. I know theclub I help never really had parent meetings and we were just happy to have numbers out, but I feel it is important for the kids club to organize a parents meeting or several. In this meeting alot of information should be discussed like behavor at tournaments- the proper way to feed their child and what is expect of them as parents. I think if it was dealt with through education then maybe it might help out.

So I am wondering how many clubs have parent meeting to disucss the sport of wrestling with them?