"You just need to sleep on it and wait at least 24 hours."
Texas Pride Field Hockey Coach Tina Edmonds gives Colleen Fink some excellent advice that every parent of a young athlete needs to hear.
What advice would you give to parents if they maybe are dissatisfied? How do they navigate that to the club owner, to the coach? And then maybe like what are the pitfalls? Like what are your like? I would avoid doing XY or ZI think that would be helpful for the parent listeners. So one of the, when I looked at your list, one of the key pitfalls I see is when you announce A-Team as a coach. Like when I announce A-Team and immediately I get an e-mail or a phone call from a parent immediately if you get an e-mail that parent. Mad and when I first started doing what I do, I used to pick up those calls and respond to those emails and that was a huge mistake for me and for them for it. I have constructive feedback as to why I made this decision. But in that moment when the parent is so upset they aren't open to hearing it or if they are open to hearing it, they don't actually hear it or they don't they're not really listening. And so if I'm giving parent advice when you get really upset about something, you just need to sleep on it and wait at least 24 hours before asking for some feedback you know, even in club we have. It's like I have a 36 hour policy where I I send out teams. I will not respond. I will not address it for 36 hours. Even if a kid comes up to me in practice is like, hey, I want to talk about the teams and like that's fine. I can do it after the next practice because the kids are upset and everybody feels better and can talk more rationally after a little bit of time has passed.
