You already wrote a rule about the parents.
Here's the one thing a rule can't do — and what to hand every family instead.
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You already know who the lever is.
Your club has a 24-hour rule. You wrote it about the adults — because you already know the adults are the lever. Nobody wrote that rule about the kids.
A rule contains. It doesn't change.
The rule works — as containment. It stops the parking-lot confrontation. Then the whistle blows, the rule expires, and the parent is exactly who he was before it. Next week the sideline's just as hot. The referee still files the report. The coach still absorbs it.
The rule was easy. Changing him never was — until now.
A rule is the cheapest thing a club can do, which is why every club has one. What no club has is the next step: a program that actually changes how a parent shows up — handed to every family, the week they register.
Three countries looked at the same problem and reached for the same lever — regulate the adults.
- 1 USA delayed the parent (the 24-hour rule).
- 2 England muted him (Silent Support Weekend).
- 3 Norway removed the scoreboard.
Every one of them regulated the adult. Not one of them changed him. The club that takes the next step — and actually educates him — is the one with calmer sidelines by season's end.
One license. Every family. The week they register.
An annual club license to read.dobbmayo.com — the parent program your club can actually hand out.
Tier 1 — Club License
Club-wide access to read.dobbmayo.com for every family — a living parent publication, not a one-time handout. Fresh writing every week, a resource library that keeps growing, and a direct line to ask Dobb himself. The conduct shelf is already stocked — the 24-Hour Rule Kit, the Sneaky Five Self-Audit, the One-Sentence Job Description, and the preseason parent-meeting one-pager you hand out at kickoff — with new pieces added all season long.
Tier 2 — Club License + Parent Library
Everything in Tier 1, plus Behind Every Great Student-Athlete for every family — the full parent playbook, not just the conduct shelf.
Tier 3 — Club License + Full Program
Everything in Tier 2, plus the Student-Athlete Series — Mental Toughness and Overcoming Anxiety — for your athletes, available as bulk-print welcome kits shipped direct.
"As a coach and a parent, I know how important — and sometimes challenging — it is to find the right balance between our desire to support our athletes and giving them the space to grow. Dobb discusses this in a way that helps all of us reflect, learn, and better support the athletes we care about."
"As a former collegiate athlete, parent of a college athlete, and retired teacher and coach, I could’ve used this book in all phases of my life. Mental Toughness for Student Athletes is surprisingly easy to read, and it's written in such a way that you can focus on one particular chapter as opposed to reading it cover to cover although I highly recommend reading it in its entirety. The Champion's Corner provides a quick overview of the chapter with easy to use strategies, which are well referenced. Anyone wanting to dig deeper into a particular strategy has the resources at their fingertips."
Researched, not recycled — Every claim in this program is anchored to a primary source — no repeated statistics nobody can find the study for. The person writing this is the one who read the studies.
You already believe adult behavior is the lever. You wrote the rule to prove it. Give every family the thing a rule can't — starting whenever your next registration opens.
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