1. Remember the child is playing sports for their enjoyment, not yours.
2. Encourage your child to learn the rules and to play within them.
3. Strongly discourage unfair play and arguing with officials – teach your children the importance of following the rules of the game and respecting the officials giving their time to facilitate the game.
4. Help your child to recognise the value of hard work, honest effort, skill improvement and good performance, not just results.
5. Never force your child to take part in sport.
6. Set a good example by recognising fair play and applauding good performances of all, most particularly the opposing teams.
7. Never punish or belittle a child for losing or making mistakes.
8. Publicly accept officials’ judgements and never argue with or show dissent towards officials.
9. Support your child’s involvement and help them to enjoy their sport and develop within it.
10. Use correct and proper language at all times and support all efforts to remove verbal and physical abuse from sporting activities.
11. Encourage and guide players to accept responsibility for their own performance and behaviour.
12. Recognise the value and importance of volunteer coaches, managers, referees, and officials and give them their due respect. Without them there would be no junior sport at Heatons Sports Club.
13. Adhere to any additional codes of conduct set out by each sports section and pay the relevant subscriptions on time and in full.