Watts, Frank B.

Coaching kids : all team sports / by Frank B. Watts. - 2nd ed. - Chicago, Ill. : Lancaster : Price World ; Gazelle [distributor], 2011. - 160 p. : ill.

Includes index.

Sports, love and lament -- Competition -- Paid coaches or volunteer parents? -- Can you coach kids? -- Clear and simple - assume nothing -- Behavior -- The organized coach -- Involve the parents -- Parent-player meeting -- Win at all costs? -- Protect the kids and yourself -- Intensity -- Problem parents -- The league -- Purge the troublemakers -- Balance the playing time -- Balance the talent -- Dropouts -- Competitive or noncompetitive -- Plan and communicate -- Coaches\' training -- Schools and kids sports -- Recreation districts and kids sports -- Rewards and beginning.

Disgruntled parents, win at all costs, troublemakers, playing time, balancing talent, and tracking drop-outs. These are just some of the issues faced head-on in this book. It provides concrete ways to involve parents in the process as well as step-by-step help with kid-coaching basics and trouble management.

9781932549621 (pbk.) : £12.50 9781932549621 1932549625 9781932549621 (hardcover)

2010920934


Coach-athlete relationships.
Sports--Psychological aspects
Coaching (Athletics)
Sports for children--Coaching
Sport.
Sports training & coaching

GV709.24

796.077 WAT