""Do not go to the practices and watch your children. This is their time." A shocked Lowe quipped, "Ever?!" before Wambach explained her answer. The soccer star insisted that the purpose of practice "is not for the kid to look over their shoulder and make sure that their mom or dad or parent is sitting on the sideline watching them.""
""So I'm like, 'Well, I'm a bad mom if I also don't go to practices.' So I'm there with my little rocking chair and then I'm in amongst all the parents. And I'm looking around and thinking, S o they've gone to every practice and they've gone to the games. And then I'm like, 'Okay, so should I go?' Are you serious?""
Parents should avoid attending their children's sports practices to preserve practice as the child's time for free play and experimentation. Practices should enable risk-taking, mistakes, new skills, and successes without parental presence on the sideline. Parental attendance can cause children to seek external approval, which undermines intrinsic motivation and reduces willingness to try new things. Guilt about missing games or practices is common among working parents, but attending every practice is not necessary. Allowing autonomy during practice supports development, confidence, and a healthy motivation to learn and improve.
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