Parental Pressure

I coach 6 year old soccer. Its a lot of fun because the kids are just starting to get excited about the game. However, they are also just starting to become self-conscious of how they perform. At that age kids can swing either way with their desire to play, their fear of failure, and the parental pressure that is placed upon them. You might think that at 6 there isn't a lot of parental pressure to perform. "That comes later," your might say. It's true that some parents I see just want their kid to learn to love the game and have fun. They want them to do well and feel good about getting involved. Other parents must push/bribe their kid to want to play and to do more than just stand on the field and not move. Finally, there are the "gun-ho" type of parents who are yelling for their kid-even at age 6-to perform, to be better, and to work harder. These things aren't bad, but I begin to question how much you should push for those when your kid is 6 and you are yelling at him for not doing everything perfect or not working hard enough, when it is clear to me that he has been playing his best. It leads me to wonder if these kids are the ones that perform the best or if other parental approaches are better. Maybe it is just a difference in style, or maybe it is a completely different life philosophy. I don't know what these types of parents think or expect from their kids. At that age I think a love of the sport (or whatever activity the child is involved in) should be key and let the expectation to succeed build, but not at the expense of pushing a kid so hard that perhaps he won't want to do it anymore, or worse will keep doing it but because its what his/her parents expect, not because they love it.