Beyond Winning: Smart Parenting in a Toxic Sports Environment

Beyond Winning: Smart Parenting in a Toxic Sports Environment
ISBN-10
0762797185
ISBN-13
9780762797189
Series
Beyond Winning
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2013-08-20
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Authors
Scott Lancaster, Kim Payne, Luis Llosa

Description

These days it seems everyone has a youth sports horror story—whether it’s about a tyrant coach obsessed with his team record that only plays the best kids on the team, or a parent who publicly berates his kid for not making a goal. But should it really only be all about winning? What about having fun, learning a sport, and developing athletic skills? Beyond Winning with Whole Child Sports offers an alternative approach to teaching sports to kids. It deemphasizes short-term goals like winning and youth championships and discourages the introduction of adult-oriented, league-structured competition. Instead it emphasizes training techniques and coaching strategies aimed at improving core strength, balance, and creativity in aspiring athletes, using an age-appropriate four-stage timeline, based on a child’s physical, psychological, and neurological development. Beyond Winning with Whole Child Sports provides frustrated parents with help in the form of advice and concrete solutions to common questions, and step-by-step instructions for helping young children develop athletic ability in an environment that’s less structured while encouraging athletic and personal growth. It also reveals how to avoid bullying, trash talk, and elitism.

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