Parents are extremely important in youth sport because they provide children with support that allows them to participate and progress (Horn & Horn, 2007; Wuerth, Lee & Alfermann, 2004). Parental involvement can often result in a sense of entitlement, meaning that taking over and forcing the child to play a sport the parents enjoy can lead to parental interference and a negative experience from the perspective of the child. Parental involvement is probably the main reason most athletes participate in organized sports in the first place. A good example would be Andy Murray and Tiger Woods. Therefore, by introducing their children to sports, they tend to teach them their first steps in sporting skills and many young athletes emphasize the positive influence of their parents during their careers (Wuerth, Lee and Alfermann, 2004). Parents also report that their children are physically active, which has an important relationship with children's physical activity behavior (Trost, Sallis, Pate, Freedson, Taylor, and Dowda 2003). Parents have a significant impact in the lives of their children, whom they support. ; they therefore have to make sacrifices to ensure that their children are happy and enjoy the sport in which they participate, for example: supportive parents can finance their children's participation, transport them to training and competition, as well as comforting them when they have lost or are injured and also provides children with information about future careers, school options and their sporting performance (Cote, 1999; Fraser – Thomas, Cote & Deakin, 2008; Holt et Dunn, 2004; Morgan and Giacobbi 2006; Wuerth, Lee and Alfermann, (2004) agree with...... middle of article ......t (2013) "The Sports Psychologist", Strategies Used and Assistance Required to Facilitate the children's participation in tennis: Parents » perspectives, 27(), pp. 281 - 291. Stewart G. Trost, PhD, James F. Sallis PhD Russell T Pate PhD, Patty S Freedson PhD, Wendell G. Taylor PhD Marsha Dowda DrPh (2003) 'American Journal of Preventive medicine', Evaluation of a model of parental influence on the physical activity of young people, 25(), pp. 277 - 282.S. Wuerth, MJ Lee, D. Alfermann (2002) 'Psychology of sport and exercise', Parental involvement and the careers of athletes in youth sport, 5(), pp. 21 - 33.Jennifer C. Anderson, Jeanne B. Funk, Robert Elliott, Peg Hull Smith (2003) 'Applied developmental psychology', Parental support and pressure and children's extracurricular activities: relationship with degree of involvement and affective experience of participation, 24(), pp. 241 - 257.