{"id":979,"date":"2016-01-13T07:26:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/?p=979"},"modified":"2016-01-13T07:26:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:26:41","slug":"why-coaching-from-stands-causes-confusion-and-how-to-stop-parents-from-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/why-coaching-from-stands-causes-confusion-and-how-to-stop-parents-from-doing-it","title":{"rendered":"Why Coaching from Stands Causes Confusion &#8211; And How to Stop Parents From Doing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have parents that shout instructions to their kids from the stands, you probably already know that can be problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing worse than a kid continually\u00a0looking at their parents for approval during a game (instead of the coach) and often times the parent yelling instructions that contradict what you want.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention it really confuses the athlete when everyone is yelling instruction. \u00a0Who should they listen to??<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solving the Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think the key is good communication with the parents and educating them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For starters you can send out\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/letter-email-to-youth-basketball-parents\/\">letter to the parents.<\/a>\u00a0 You can also \u00a0share this excellent video by Kevin Eastman with parents. \u00a0It really does a good job explaining the issues and comes from a credible NBA coach.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AEQXw76oooM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Great video I suggest you listen to. \u00a0Makes you think twice about what it&#8217;s really like for the kids out on the court\/field\/pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have parents that shout instructions to their kids from the stands, you probably already know that can be problematic. Nothing worse than a kid continually\u00a0looking at their parents for approval during a game (instead of the coach) and often times the parent yelling instructions that contradict what you want. Not to mention it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-team-management","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}