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The Importance of Healthy Parents in Sport
We know that parents are the number one influence on their child's physical activity and sport involvement. Parents need to be paying careful attention, especially in the more competitive environments for abuse in sport. As a parent, you've paid a lot of money, you spend a lot of time, your child is involved too. But we have to be very careful that we don't change that parenting relationship into a coach. And when our relationship starts to become all around sport performance, that's a dangerous path.