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Ernie Bolibaugh: Assistant Coach
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#17 Steve and Lorri Zeller “How to Parent & Raise 3 NBA Players – The Zeller Way”


As parents, there is an internal struggle of desperately wanting your children to be better than yourself and better than the way they are currently acting or performing. This is not a bad desire. However, it becomes dangerous whenever this desire leads to controlling your children. You have to let your kids go through the process, whatever it may be, even if there are mistakes along the way.

Ultimately, performance-based love from parents produces performance-based identities in their children. Studies have actually proven that even telling your children something positive along the lines of, “You’re a good basketball player,” can actually have a detrimental effect on them because their entire identity is based on their performance. Therefore, whenever they have a day when they are a bad basketball player, they will consequently feel worthless and empty. It’s far too easy to hook a kid’s identity to what they are doing or what they have done. That is why it is important to implement character into everything because you hook their identity to something much more long lasting and important than their performance.

Steve and Lorri Zeller (parents of Luke, Tyler, and Cody Zeller) provide an inside look, in their book “Raising Boys The Zeller Way,” at the principles they implemented in their household. Luke, Tyler, and Cody each finished at the top of their high school class, won Indiana's famed Mr. Basketball award, went on to play basketball at Division I universities, and play in the NBA. But most importantly, they have turned out to be high character people.

In this Podcast, Steve and Lori share important lessons they learned from mistakes they made to become better parents. You will learn about a car ride with Luke that transformed Steve from being a “Helicopter Parent” to a...Click Here to Continue Reading

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