Eira Parry High Performance Parenting

Posted April 24, 2018

Eira is a rowing coach and athlete who started High-Performance Parenting offering support for parents of athletes involved in any sport at any level. HPP runs seminars, workshops and 1-2-1 sessions looking at subjects such as nutrition, anti-doping, sport/life balance and talking to a child about their sport.

As well as supporting and advising parents, HPP offers a great opportunity for parents to feedback to coaches, thus streamlining and synergising the parent/coach relationship. Eira is passionate that the journey in sport should be positive and offer opportunities for growth and learning, for athletes, coaches and parents alike.

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Timestamps
01:00 HPP is for any parent of a child who rows
05:00 Top dos and don’ts for parenting sporting children. Open communication with athlete and coach, Embrace making mistakes. It’s their game not yours.
07:00 Effective dialogue – protocols for communication
09:00 New group induction topics – use parents as allies in the support network
15:00 Sport / life balance – don’t give up things because rowing has a high training load. Periods of under-recovery are normal. Morning monitoring.
19:00 The sporting journey should be fun for parents too. Find out likely race outcomes and prepare your own emotions.
22:00 Nutrition for athletes – protein eaten regularly in meal and snacks – recovery snacks of carb + protein
26:00 What causes conflict in sport. Selection decisions are hart to do transparently in rowing. Empathise with your child, accept their disappointment. Encourage then to ask the coach for feedback.
32:00 Can young people understand and learn from disappointments? Are you going to be in sport for the long term?
37:00 Learn sporting heroes’ journey stories
38:00 How can a coach make fair selections? Have a policy readily available. Key events, how the event crews will be selected. The coach has final say.
40:00 What is the difference between sport and an unfair situation?
44:00 Dispute resolution – allow both parties to be heard. Redress or not?
48:00 Peer group friendships and racing up an agegroup
51:00 Workshops for parents, nutrition, sport life balance, psychology, how to talk to your child about sport, recovery snacks, supporting your child.