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When you’re chatting to other parents at school pickup, or on the sidelines at Saturday morning sport, have you ever noticed how often (and quickly) parents love to say that their kids play rep sport? We get it, making a rep squad is an achievement, and it’s natural for parents to be proud. However, many of us place tremendous weight on the success of our kids in the sporting realm.

None of us set out to have a negative impact on our kids when we start enrolling them in junior sport but along the journey something changes. SALT’s Positive Parenting course re-sets the dial. Through smart, positive sports parenting, we can help prepare our kids for life and one day they will thank you for what you did.  

At SALT we often receive letters of thanks. Rarely are they as well written or as moving as this one: "A few of us at Birregurra FNC had been talking for a while about bringing someone in to do a mental health and wellbeing session with our footballers and netballers, knowing that for many of us - young and old - maintaining good mental health can be an ongoing struggle.  As coach of the reserves footy team, I'm used to receiving Thursday night messages from blokes saying they won't be able to play the coming weekend, because they're going to a festival, going fishing, going camping, can't be bothered, whatever. Midway through the 2022 season I received a Thursday night text from one of our twos players that absolutely floored me.  "I'm really sorry Pete, I won't be able to play this weekend. This morning I tried to take my own life." 

Sport and Life Training (SALT) gets a lot of calls from local sporting clubs when things have gone wrong. ‘We need a course on respect and equality’ explained the President of this typical suburban footy club. He went on to explain why. ‘Our women’s teams do the warm-ups with our men’s teams at training. One of our young blokes said quite loudly, ‘Why do we have to train with these ****s?’ The Pres explained that they had dealt with it strongly. ‘We suspended him for 4 weeks and during those weeks he had to run the water out to the women’s teams. We need to follow up with some in-club education,’ he explained.

Over the past few months Scott and Dave have been on the road, around the State facilitating to many clubs and impacting even more communities.  Dave and Scott the absent fathers and husbands as they hit the road over the past two months visiting townships such as Tytynder, Jerilderie, Yackandandah and everywhere in between.