I'd have to concur with both Redeployed and Sportsfan, parents need to be in the room at kids level. Every club I've been involved with encouraged it. In fact I'd have to say the biggest factor for success for most kids, is the support of their parents. I know as a club director I hated it when some parents treated weekly practices as day care and just dropped their kids off.

I've seen Darin Denning, long time coach of Kaw Valley and helper to Sunflower, direct a room of 20 PLUS new kids and still keep control of the room. Darin had expectations for his wrestlers, and parents, and didn't let them slide.

Tony Purler's room isn't filled with kids that know everything, it's filled with kids that know what is expected of them, as well as their parents. He makes the rules clear. The parents must let him coach, and the kids must focus on what he's teaching. No distractions or those making them.

Cutting the parents out of the room, at a young age, I think in the end will hurt the club. You'll get your 2 hours time with them as a coach, but your also robbing the parents and wrestlers of sharing in your knowledge, and allowing them to connect and both wanting to excel in wrestling, one as a wrestler and the other as a wrestling parent.

I've learned tons from just sitting, watching, and listening to guys like Darin Denning and Tony Purler, just to name a few coaches who have impacted my son, and me as well.