Ten Rules by which to parent your swimmer

1. Provide your swimmer with the best opportunity available.
2. Support your swimmer.
3. Create and maintain a positive environment at home.
4. Love and accept your child unconditionally. Criticize the act, not your swimmer.
5. Let your child own his swimming. It is his swimming, not yours.
6. Make a contribution. Support the team.
7. Make swimming a collaborative pursuit between swimmer, coach, and parent.
8. Let the coach coach.
9. Demonstrate your value for competitive swimming excellence. Encourage your swimmer to play to win, but remember it is just a game whereby most of the value steams from playing to win, not from having won.
10. Tell your swimmer to HAVE FUN.

[source: club archives]