Typical idiot parent response. Let me guess you paid your kid a dollar a goal when he was in squirts? Geez, I wonder where he learned those bad habits from?
The weekend is coming up so make sure you wash his game jersey so you can wear in the stands!
At what age should a coach stop having to tell a kid to skate or work hard?
And at what age is it appropriate for limiting minutes or benching for not working hard?
below hs/juniors: never. the real question is why is that child on the team to begin with?
no coach should remind players to 'work hard', that is similar to telling employees to show up on time for work. if you have to do that you have the wrong players.
At what age should a coach stop having to tell a kid to skate or work hard?
And at what age is it appropriate for limiting minutes or benching for not working hard?
below hs/juniors: never. the real question is why is that child on the team to begin with?
no coach should remind players to 'work hard', that is similar to telling employees to show up on time for work. if you have to do that you have the wrong players.
yeah, have you ever coached kids at any point. You always have to tell them to work hard. They are kids who look for the easiest way possible to do things. If you are lucky you might get 2-3 kids who do it all the time. The rest are always needing motivation at some point.
i must have the wrong board. the one i thought i was on was filled with 'players that wanted to be there' and 'self motivated' and 'he wants to go [to games/practice hours away]' and 'looking to get to the next level'.
working and skating hard should be a given. if not, they should not be there. interesting how that point was overlooked. of course there will 'those days' but i assume the OP was talking about a long-term trend. 'yellers' have a short life as a coach (a/k/a Mike Keenan) but then again it looks impressive to those easily...
At what age should a coach stop having to tell a kid to skate or work hard?
And at what age is it appropriate for limiting minutes or benching for not working hard?
below hs/juniors: never. the real question is why is that child on the team to begin with?
no coach should remind players to 'work hard', that is similar to telling employees to show up on time for work. if you have to do that you have the wrong players.
Those same people that show up to work on time often do not work hard when they get there, so what makes you think the kids will just fall in line? Your comment makes me wonder if you've ever interacted with other humans. Maybe you are a robot?