Nobody Tells Parents
How This Actually Works.
A coach inside your organization can't tell you this. I can.
35 years coaching. USA Hockey district evaluator. Hockey parent, and head coach of both my kids' teams.
I've coached players from their first day on the ice to the day they joined me on the bench for an adult league (beer league) game. I know how this goes, because I've watched how it ends, hundreds of times.
What's coming
How It Actually Works
- →How teams really get picked, and when
- →What development means at each age
- →Tier 1, 2, 3, USHL, NAHL, and which matter
What You're Allowed to Say
- →Talking to a coach without burning it
- →When to escalate, and to who
- →What to do when you're right and he won't listen
Teaching Them to Speak
- →Preparing your kid to ask for what they want
- →What a 13-year-old can say that you can't
- →When to push and when to back all the way off
The Landmines
- →Playing time, politics, and the coach's kid
- →What travel really costs in time and family
- →When it's time to move, and when moving is the mistake
Aether Parent, $29/mo, is being written. Free members hear about it first.
“Should I get a lawyer?”
I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice. But I've sat with hundreds of families at this exact moment, and most of the time a lawyer is the wrong first move. Sometimes it isn't, and I'll tell you when I've seen that too.
- →Forcing a release, and when it costs more than the season
- →What to document before anyone writes a letter
- →How a lawyer threat changes a room, and follows your kid
Anything involving your child's safety or SafeSport: talk to your association and an actual attorney. This is experience, not counsel.