Below is a sample Parent Agreement that will work well for any sport. You’re free to print it out and use it in your association. A good time to go over this agreement is during the opening meeting with the parents. We urge you to hand out the Checklist and Codes (see links), also, at this meeting. Note: to be effective, the agreement has to have some teeth!
 
 
Parent Agreement
 
Dear Folks – We want everyone involved with this team to have a great season. Winning is important to us coaches, but so is teaching your child good sportsmanship. We as coaches pledge to model the best ethics possible, and we ask you to work with us to put forward these same positive principles. We coaches are in agreement with the new trend in youth sports rules that posits character and sportsmanship as the mainstay of any good program.
 
Over the past few years, all sports are taking a zero-tolerance position toward negative behavior. This goes for players, coaches, and spectators. It is up to all of us to model positive ethical conduct.
 
Below are the terms with which we expect parents to agree:
 
* You are encouraged to encourage your/our players. This means positive comments only, no matter when, where, under what conditions, or how they’re made. “Run harder!” is not a positive comment. Muttering, posturing, and exhibiting the early warning signs of a stroke are also not “positive.”
* Please leave coaching to the coaches. This goes for your own child and everyone else’s. Players should be able to hear coaching instructions, from coaches only, during play, half-times, practices, etc.
* Please refrain from making any comments to any referee, no matter how much you disagree with a call. We coaches, also, will leave refereeing to the referees. The only time we will question a call is if it involves the imminent safety of a player.
* Please refrain from any negative comments to any parent or spectator from an opposing team. You are encouraged to offer encouragement or praise to players and parents from other teams.
* The general rule: Negatives are a No.
* And lastly, please stay 10 feet back from the sidelines and refrain from viewing from the rear lines.

 
Because we want this season to have an entirely positive tone, we are asking you to sign off below that you understand and accept these rules. More, we’re asking you to agree that there will be ramifications for disregarding the guidelines: we’ll warn the parent once, but on the second time, we’ll ask him/her to leave the game/practice. If that parent refuses to leave, or has the same difficulty with negativism again sometime later in the season, we will regretfully remove the parent’s child from the roster, refunding a pro-rated amount of the fees.
 
Likewise, if any coach associated with this team feels s/he should leave the field before his/her own behavior gets out of control, that action will be taken by the coaching staff. On the second instance of a coach’s inability to maintain self-control, that coach shall relinquish his/her position, for the remainder of the season, and a replacement coach shall take that former position. Families shall immediately communicate with the association as to such a change in coaching positions.
 
Thanks very much for observing and modeling these basic principles of good conduct. We’re all part of this team, together, as parents and as coaches. Let’s have a great season!
 
 
I’ve read the above and agree to its conditions. 

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Signed: _______________________________   Date:____________________

Coach’s Signature: _____________________