Once upon a time, there was an inter-club skating competition between clubs "Lenient" and "Strict" at the premises of club "Strict".
The parents of club "Lenient" skaters observed that the skaters of club "Strict", even the littlest ones, had extremely good form, stance and were able to bend double and skate through the length of events as long as 1 km. So they mentioned this to the coaches of club "Lenient". The coaches lamented that parents did not co-operate and complained if their children were punished.
Is punishment the only way for children to excel at sport? Surely there must be another way?
The parents of club "Lenient" skaters observed that the skaters of club "Strict", even the littlest ones, had extremely good form, stance and were able to bend double and skate through the length of events as long as 1 km. So they mentioned this to the coaches of club "Lenient". The coaches lamented that parents did not co-operate and complained if their children were punished.
Is punishment the only way for children to excel at sport? Surely there must be another way?
Sadly Bhavna..... there is a third way called - encourage and motivate and many people forget this....
ReplyDeleteTeachers and trainers (and often parents)forget there is a mid-way between punishment and leniency called tough love i.e. "being firm yet kind"... this way children can be encouraged and motivated to do well within the boundaries of "acceptable/unacceptable" behaviour.
On the one hand we have parents either being too pushy or too touchy "dont tell a word to my child" and we have teachers/trainers knowing only one language to control kids leading to more touchy parents.... and the mid-way has thus gone for a toss!!!!!