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Show Psychologist tells parents ways to work out problems with child athletes the child is not physically fit for that particular sport, ' Henschen said. Parents have some important responsibilities and some of them include the following: parents should show interest in a child's activities, ac-tivities, success and failures should be accepted by parents, criticism of performance or practice should be handled by the coach, competition should be left on the field, court or ballpark, sports should be kept in proportion to the other activities of the family, do not attend practices, coaches should be checked out thoroughly, and attend games only if your child wants you to attend. The main key to parenting the child athlete is to keep the child's interests and desires in mind. Henschen stressed that competition is okay as long as it does not go too far. The next Soup and Salad Seminar Sem-inar will be given on June 13, by Rick Otvos, entitled: "Families Who Play Together Stay Together." Seminars begin at 12:30 and the cost is $1. Schedules for upcoming seminars are now available. For more information contact Benchmark Regional Hospital at 299-5300. At a recent aoup and daiad seminar sem-inar held at Benchmark Regional Hospital, Dr. Keith Henschen, a sports psychologist at the University Univer-sity of Utah, addressed a group of local residents and discussed ways to help parents with their child athletes. Dr. Henschen pointed out that children and most parents view playing sports differently. Children want to play sports because they are fun, they like to play, they make friends, they compete, and they learn skills. While parents keep some of these same things in mind, many parents get too caught up in the "competitive aspect of the sport. "Competition is okay, but we often let it go too far. Winning gets in the way of what children should be Ieaming-how to compete ethically," ethi-cally," said Henschen. Henschen suggested that parents ought to be guests in their children's sports lives. "Let them tell you when they want you to attend at-tend their games," Henschen said. As a result of adult egos, child athletes become a product of competition com-petition from the adult attitude to beat, cheat and "thump" the competition com-petition etc., instead of enjoying the sport and associated friendships. "Young athletes have rights," Henschen said. Children have the right to participate, the right to compete at a level that commensurate commen-surate s with their maturity and ability, abil-ity, the right for qualified adult leadership, the right to play as a child and not as an adult, the right to share in leadership and decision making, the right to participate in a safe and healthy environment, the right to proper preparation for participation, par-ticipation, the right to be treated with dignity, the right to have fun, and the right to quit with dignity. Henschen said that parents should expose their child to many different sports and let the children decide for themselves which sport they enjoy the most and then support sup-port them in their decision. "Too often parents have their kids participate par-ticipate in the sport they love when |