Your kid comes home from school one day and tells you they want to play football. What do you do? Do your freak out? Do you dismiss the idea immediately? Do you threaten to move to a country where no one knows football exists? We understand the many reservations that parents have when it comes to their children playing football and these aren’t unfounded, but you should let your child play football.

 

If you are so worried about what goes on at practice, you can volunteer to be a coach. That’s right, moms coach football too!

 

If you don’t want to coach, read these 10 Commandments of Football Parenting to make sure you are being supportive and keeping your child positive.

 

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A lot of parents are apprehensive about letting their children play football due to the high physicality of the sport. Parents are worried their children will succumb to painful injuries.

 

The NFL understands this and realizes the scariest injury that is prevalent in football is concussions. For this reason, the NFL is urging states to pass youth football concussion laws to prevent children from receiving injuries to their brain.

 

Speaking of concussions, their may be a solution to the concussions in youth football problem and it involves an ex-WWE wrestler.

 

Once getting past parents’ fears of allowing children to play, children must overcome their own fears of playing to be successful and have...