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Why Sports Parents Sometimes Behave So Badly

By Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi — 2018

Youth sports organizations are increasingly reporting scenarios in which parents yell, threaten or physically assault coaches, referees, players or other parents.

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Parental Pressure Takes a Toll on Young Athletes

There is a fine line between parental support and pushiness.

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Robert T Muller Ph.D.
2015
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Overbearing Parents Can Take the Fun Out of Sports for Their Kids

Experts say the more parents involve themselves in their kids’ sporting events, including acting out on sidelines, the less enjoyable and more results-driven is the child’s athletic experience.

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Vincent Z. Mercogliano
2018
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Playing Through the Pain

How one teen is using her tragic injury to take down the warrior culture in sports.

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Kristin Lewis
2013
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The Pros and Cons of Youth Sports Aren’t Only Physical

Be mindful of a young athlete’s psychological well-being.

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Marika Lindholm
2017
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Are Kids’ Sports Becoming Too Competitive?

Many children simply don’t have fun playing sports anymore. Here’s a plan to reverse the “adultification” of youth athletics.

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Chris Ballard
2020
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Youth Sports: The Problem, Say Kids in a New Poll, Is Adults

Youth sports, through the eyes of kids polled by i9 Sports, have a problem: the adults who run them. Eighty-four percent of kids said they either want to or have quit a team, and a third wish adults didn't watch their games because it makes them nervous.

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Peter Zheutlin
2012
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Parent Sports Pressure Can Leave Kids with Overwhelming Expectations

Whether pressure is unintentional or by design, kids feel it and it can lead to poor athletic performance and other unintended consequences, including poor stress coping and falling grades.

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Dr. Chris Stankovich
2020
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Emma Raducanu Puts Success Down to ‘Very Hard-to-Please Parents’

Eighteen-year-old US Open winner says upbringing has given her mental strength to succeed.

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Sean Ingle
2021
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The Joy of Six: US Athletes’ Pushy Parents

From Andre Agassi’s terrifying father to the dad who inspired a novel, half a dozen parents who just couldn’t let go.

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Les Carpenter
2015
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Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out

Recent studies suggests that kids with overinvolved parents and rigidly structured childhoods suffer psychological blowback in college.

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Julie Lythcott-Haims
2015
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Kids and Sports