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Let Your Own Child Come Home From Practice - working notes

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Hypothetical example: A child wants help with a drill at an appropriate time but asks that dinner stop becoming extra practice. The parent agrees and follows through.

01Notice when the coaching job has followed the child home

Identify where the coaching role is spilling into ordinary home life.

Uninvited coaching moment

Child's stated preference

Ordinary family time affected

02Make the boundary understandable to the actual child

Discuss a clear home boundary and how the child can ask for help.

Agreed home boundary

How optional feedback is requested

Care or safety concern route

03Provide a real route for coaching questions

Confirm an appropriate program route for coaching questions.

Authorized coaching contact

Actual communication arrangement

Policy question remaining

04Keep a part of the evening that needs no athletic result

Review whether the arrangement leaves room for ordinary family conversation.

Child's feedback after trying it

Adult habit to change

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