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.