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Stays relaxed and positive during competition and is equally
supportive regardless of the outcome.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Understands the demands of the swimming. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gives their child space and talks about other things
after a bad performance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Works closely with the coach and leaves the analysis of the race or
competition to them. Any analysis you do have you talk through with the
coach.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sees beyond winning and losing and recognizes the performance and
the experience for their child.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Believes in their child but is also realistic about where they are and
where they could go.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gives their child ownership and responsibility by allowing their child\u2019s
opinion and thoughts to be heard and valued.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Is aware of the damage of self-fulfilling prophecies such as\u2013
\u201cYou never win when its close\u201d, \u201cYou\u2019re too slow\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t have
that winning mentality \u201d. These can help to create that situation in
the future.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Keeps in mind the bigger picture and understands why they are
investing in their child\u2019s sport and all the benefits their child get from it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Recognises that they are a parent first and foremost and that sometimes, that is all their child wants and needs them to be <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Source: Child Protection in Sport Unit (2017). Further information also available: www.thecpsu.org.uk<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10 things you can do as part of being the ‘ideal’ swimming parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/middlesbroughasc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}