Coach your teens to reach their goals from pro football’s greatest head coaches
She’s a parenting EXPERT and author of her new book, Coach Parenting: Raising Teenagers With Advice From Pro Football’s Greatest Head Coaches. In the book, Erika Katz interviews 20 Super Bowl winning coaches and Hall of Fame Football players to learn how their coaching techniques can help parents keep their teens moving forward to reach all their goals. Here are four top tips she learned:
- Preparation
All great coaches prepare their teams for whatever comes their way. For parents, preparation means talking about the situations they may face and discussing what they would do. Use topics in the news about their favorite celeb who posted a picture or a tweet that got them in trouble. Use positive examples of celebs turning difficult situations into a positive.
- Made To Move
Great coaches know that to move their team forward, they need to help them excel at their strengths and improve on their weaknesses. As a parent, help your teens look and feel their best by helping them with some aspects that bother them. For my teen, he needed to straighten his teeth, so I helped him find the best treatment, Invisalign clear aligners, that would not disrupt his life or keep him from excelling at his sports and hobbies.
- W.I.N. – What’s Important Now Goal Cards
With these goal cards from the book (also downloadable at Erikakatz.com), you can help you teens move forward each day to help them achieve their dreams. Set a Goal for the week, a goal for the month and the smaller daily goals that will get them there. Each time they complete a goal card, reward them with their favorite dinner, a night out, car privileges, or whatever you think will keep them working toward their goal.
- Pay Attention To Detail
Head coaches watch when their players are half a step short and notice every little thing about their performance so they can correct and help them get better. As parents, stop scrolling and look up even if your kid is on the sideline and not playing. It’s in those moments you can see if they are all alone, participating in cheering their teammates on, or feeling left out. That information is more important than what’s going on when they are on the field.
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A parenting and lifestyle expert, Erika Katz is the author of the upcoming book Coach Parenting: Raising Teenagers with Advice From Pro Football’s Greatest Head Coaches as well as the Bonding Over Beauty Parenting Book Series. Erika can be seen on “The Mom Jury” segment for the Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda. She is also a frequent guest of Access Hollywood, Fox News, Inside Edition, The Doctors, NBC News 4 New York, Fox 5 New York, CBS2 New York, PIX11 News, and Telemundo. She discusses parenting topics in the news, the impact of social media on teens, as well as lifestyle. She contributes to Seventeen, Parents, Good Housekeeping, Girl’s Life, Shape, Prevention, and Parenting. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Erika lives in New York City with her husband, sixteen-year-old son and fourteen-year-old daughter.
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