Sports Parents Worksheet
Overview
This is a discussion for the class on a very true aspect of sports and how parents view their children within sports.
Sports Parents Worksheet
Watch the video below on helicopter parents. Then copy the questions below into a word processing program such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Answer the questions with more than three sentences each (see the rubric below for more information about grading).
Explore the Web and locate at least three examples of parents or guardians acting in a manner that most would view as inappropriate with regard to youth sport.
- Identify the three resources you located, including the Web address, the date you accessed the information, and the title of the article or the portion of the Web site where you located your information.
- Give a brief summary of what took place in each of the examples you located.
- Give your opinion as to why you think the parents or guardians “snapped” or responded in such an inappropriate manner.
- Give your opinion as to why parents care so much about their children’s sports that they act in this fashion. You should make reference to the text, particularly chapter 4, to help support your ideas.
- Locate at least one program (on either the national or the local level) that has been designed to help parents be better spectators and be less emotionally charged when their child is participating in sport. Give the title of the program, give the name of the resource you used to locate this information (if it is a Web site, please include the Web address and the date you accessed the site), and describe what the program does to make parent involvement in youth sport more positive.