How do you help your child win

This is not for the recreational parent or child

'What is a championchild?' The question may not always be phrased like this and sometimes champion may not even be in it but once you get to a certain stage in any competitive sport then this is 99% of the time what the parent is asking for.

This is not a book for school sports or playing at the park or recreation ground for fun and enjoyment for the taking part. I wrote ‘Championchild’ for the parent! Not the coach or athlete (even though they may find it helpful) but for the parent who if helped and supported can be a missing link.

Now, I am not asking you to become their new coach or take over roles of trainer and psychologist but what Championchild will help you do is give your child a clear path to success in their sport, allow you to make the right decisions for them, assist in feeding them the right information in their mind programming and understand how to deal with the competitive results.

The last point is probably one of the most difficult for all parents as with many aspects of helping your child in the sporting environment nobody shows you how so it becomes a mixture of experience (normally in other area of life) and guessing.

Now if I said you had to build and run a multi-national company from scratch with no experience you would think I am crazy or asking far too much with out any road map. Well, this is what many parents are asked to do.

Be lucky in finding a good coach, lucky to choose the right sport, comments which you may have seen other parents or coaches do and you find yourself copying their actions.