The BEST Way to Handle Sideline Parents | TEAM COACHING
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2022
- Before baseball season starts, setting ground rules with the parents and expectations on behavior help to create a better environment. This is done through a parent and player meeting with the coaches.
It tends to happen where a couple of parents do not abide by the rules during games such as "no parents in the dugout." In this instance it is necessary to be respectful, but talking to them between games or later in the week can help to remind them about the rules in place that were discussed in the beginning of the season. As a coach, it can be difficult to communicate with a child who is also being coached by a parent because they may give conflicting advice or it is just too much information for the child to understand.
Being a coach means doing what is best for and caring about the entire team. However, as a parent, the focus tends to be only on their child. For example, during one game, each child sat the bench for one inning. Still, a parent came up and said that her child sat the bench more than everyone else.
Another thing we do as coaches is implement the 24 hour rule. A parent is not allowed to discuss the game with the coach or ask questions until 24 hours after the game. This prevents emotional conversations that could happen when a parent or even the coach is frustrated about something that happened during the game. Sometimes, this is really hard to stick to as a coach, but you need to assure the parent you are happy to make time to discuss or schedule a meeting for tomorrow, but right after the game is not the appropriate time. The 24 hour rule helps to create more meaningful conversations with less possible emotional mistakes.
Additionally, keep track of all line up cards and where players were placed during the innings in order to go back and make sure that there is a real account of who played when and where instead of a parent or coach recount.
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yeah i had a mother , who would set up a lawn chair directly behind Homeplate to watch her daughter pitch, and i would look over and she would be mirroring the pitches and after every pitch the daughter she would mouth stuff to her daughter, and the daughter would put her hands in the air like “i don’t know what she’s trying to tell me”….. this went on for like 2 innings until the MOTHER called a time out to go talk to her daughter on the mound….. I stopped her as she needed to go through the dugout to get into the field, and i said “ you need to stop, she is going to be on JV next season, and this is an official modified school game, you CAN NOT call time outs to go give your daughter tips, if you think it’s important, tell me, and IF i think it’s important, i will
relay the message…. it’s distracting to everyone else in the field, and clearly your daughter hates it, so if it continues i will have to put her in another position and no more pitching” i hate punishing the kid for the parents behavior, but this girl said she would rather not pitch when her mom is at the game…. and the mom would tell me the games she would be at in hopes that i will put her at pitcher those games.
I really like your videos guys. They always give me great ideas to use in coaching my team. I coached 8U kid pitch this spring and run into the sidline coaching. Keep up the great work!
How do you deal with the loose cannon parents? Had a really bad incident last weekend and had a parent raise his voice and curse after the first inning.
Love it!!!
Great info, thanks
yeah, not that you have to play everyone the same, especially in Travel or school ball, but the parents who have such a lopsided view of how much their kid sits compared to other kids are insane….