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<title>Coaching your own child: how do you avoid favoritism and protect your relationship?</title>
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<description>Be their parent first, hold every player to one standard, keep the ride home off the game, and save the skills talk for practice where it belongs.</description>
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<description>No. Equal time fits a young rec team, earned time fits an older selective one, your league's floor beats both, and the policy goes on paper before game one.</description>
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<description>Parents do read. They just look in the wrong place. Put the schedule, every change and the parent chat in one spot, and Saturday mornings get boring.</description>
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