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Encourage our children!

PCS invites you to play your part by encouraging your child to participate and stay involved in sport and physical activity.

Sport has the real potential to help prepare your son or daughter for life from the early, pre-school years through to adulthood. PCS believes that there is no better way of teaching our children vital character-building life lessons, which is why it is so important that we all try harder to help our children stay in sport.

Amongst many other character building qualities, sport teaches our children how to:

•  build self-confidence
•  stay fit and healthy
•  develop discipline 
•  set targets 
•  become team players
•  cope with failure and bounce back 
•  handle criticism and success

The Parental Problem

Increasingly, we see parents and coaches shouting at officials from the sideline and clubs putting pressure on young people to compete every week and win at all costs.

We see pushy parents telling their kids off for making a mistake during a game and this is taking the fun out of sport for children. Is it any wonder that so many young people drop out of sport each year?

The answer... PCS

Sport can still be fun without losing its competitive or character building edge. And this is what PCS teaches, starting with our philosophy of the Double Goal Coach, which advocates the importance of winning, but focuses more on the life-lessons your child can learn from playing sport.

Through live person-to-person workshops, we will supply you with information and support to help you reinforce the PCS messages and understand what your child really wants from sport.

Practical tools include a parents workbook and this interactive website which will offer feedback, tips and videos of best practice. As a parent, it’s then up to you use these tools and in turn become part of a cultural change!

Positive Coaching Scotland: Developing young people through sport!