The biggest mistakes parents make when their kids play team sports

Sports psychologist Rick Wolff and retired NFL player Scott Wells joined 'One Nation with Brian Kilmeade' to discuss officials fleeing youth sports.

Many kids are right now lacing up for their fall youth sports teams as back to school time gets underway, whether it's a school team or a youth or recreation league team.

Parents and coaches should establish positive communication — and one expert says that needs to happen "well before" that first sneaker hits the field.

"The first time a parent has a meaningful interaction with the coach should not be because a problem has come up," Jason Sacks, president of Positive Coaching Alliance in San Francisco, California, told Fox News Digital in an interview. 

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Positive Coaching Alliance is a national nonprofit founded in 1998 with a mission to "change the culture of youth sports so that every child, regardless of social or economic circumstance, has access to positive youth sports experience," said Sacks.

Sports offer kids life lessons that "stay with them well after their playing days are over," said youth sports expert Jason Sacks. (AP Photo/Salina Journal, Tom Dorsey)

Sacks called sports participation an "unbelievable opportunity" to not only "focus on teaching the sport and how to compete," but to instill "lessons that are going to stay with kids long after their playing days are over." 

Sacks has coached at the high school and college level. He said good communication is the coach’s job, too.

"After high school, if your child is going on to college or into the workforce, you're not going to be there as a parent to fight their battles."

A coach should let both the parents and