{"id":865,"date":"2013-10-13T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T08:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2013-10-13T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T08:40:05","slug":"its-all-the-parents-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/13\/its-all-the-parents-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all the parents&#8217; fault!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was an article on an Australian news site a while back (no longer available) that looked at the causality of kids dropping out of sports. It started with the statistic that 70% of kids who start a sport give it up by age 13 and never play it again. There are a lot of reasons why this happens. I&#8217;m sure you can rattle off several without too much thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one that particular article focused on was <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/parent-decisions-on-volleyball-coaches\/\">parents<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In brief, parents are way too personally invested in their children&#8217;s sports. Particularly, the ride home afterwards is identified as a major problem area in the child-parent relationship. It&#8217;s something coaches of youth players would do well to address with their parent groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, I will say that in my volleyball experience a lot of kids in some areas get into the sport competitively later than in other sports. That doesn&#8217;t mean I haven&#8217;t seen and heard about some unfortunate parent behavior at those older age groups, however. And even if the quit rate after age 13 is much lower than the 70% level of before, that doesn&#8217;t mean there can&#8217;t be negative impacts from how parents interact with their kids regarding their play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents are a big factor in why kids quit sports, so it&#8217;s worth volleyball coaches understanding and addressing potential problem areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,14],"tags":[112,189,235,498],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-r","category-volleyball-coaching","category-volleyball-coaching-resources","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-juniors","tag-parents","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}