Fill Your Child's Emotional Tank: Perhaps the most important thing you can do is to be there for your child. Competitive sports are stressful to players and the last thing they need is a critic at home. Be a cheerleader for your child. Focus on the positive things he is doing and leave the correcting of mistakes to the coach. Let him know you support him without reservation regardless of how well he plays.

Fill the Emotional Tanks of the Entire Team: Cheer for all of the players on the team. Tell each of them they are doing something well.

Encourage Other Parents to Honor the Game: Do not show disrespect for the other team or the officials. However, more than that encourages other parents to also Honor the Game. If a parent of a player on your team begins to berate the official, gently say to them, "Hey, that's not honoring the Game. That is not the way we do things here."

Do not Give Instructions During a Game or Practice: You are not one of the coaches, so do not give your child instructions about how to play. It can be very confusing for a child to hear someone other than the coach yelling out instructions during a game. If you have an idea for a tactic, go to the coach and offer it to him. Then let him decide whether he is going to use it or not. If he decides not to use it, let it be. Getting to decide those things is one of the privileges he has earned by making the commitment to coach

Adult Behavior: At any TC Charger event, practice or competition, any adult who: 1) verbally abuses; 2) attempts to intimidate; 3) is flagrantly rude, or, 4) cannot control their language or actions with an official, coach, or Charger volunteer will be asked to leave the event. He or she will receive a written warning regarding their behavior.

Do not Put the Player in the Middle: Imagine a situation around the dinner table, in which a child's parents complain in front of him about how poorly his math teacher is teaching fractions. How would this influence this student's motivation to work hard to learn fractions? How would it affect his love of mathematics? While this may seem farfetched, when we move away from school to youth sports, it is all too common for parents to share their disapproval of a coach with their children. This puts a young athlete in a bind. Divided loyalties do not make it easy for a child to do their best. Conversely, when parents support a coach, it is that much easier for the child to put his wholehearted effort into learning to play well. If you think your child's coach is not handling a situation well, do not tell that to the player. Rather, seek a meeting with the coach in which you can talk with him about it.