The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting : Everything You Need to Guide Your Young Athlete

A "wonderfully written" guide for parents of student athletes, full of "excellent pointers drawn from the best research" (G. Louis Heath, Ph. D., Sports Literature Association Journal ). For more than a decade, former basketball coach Dan Doyle has been traveling the country, speaking to student-athletes and their parents about their involvement in and dedication to every sport imaginable. As founder and executive director of the Institute of International Sport at the University of Rhode Island, Doyle has heard countless stories about confrontations taking place on and off the court between coaches, players, parents, and even fans. Now Doyle has joined forces with Deborah Doermann Burch, a former schoolteacher and parenting expert, to write The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting . Together, they surveyed more than 500 successful sports figures to gain additional insight into what parents can do to guide their children through the competitive, challenging, and often rewarding world of sports. In this book, parents will learn how to express themselves in various challenging situations, including learning that their children have been cut from teams; have become victims of team violence, hazing, or bullying; or are not receiving adequate and assumedly deserved playing time. For the last eight years, Dan Doyle,founder and executive director of the Institute for International Sport, and parenting expert Deborah Doermann Burch have researched The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting. The Encyclopedia offers prescriptive advice on virtually every issue that confront parents of young athletes of all ages. The research has encompassed an extensive array of surveys with a wide variety of individuals and groups, including present and former athletes; parents and grandparents; non-athletes - and a special survey conducted with 500 highly successful individuals on their views of sport. In his capacity as Distinguished Lecturer for the NCAA Foundation, Doyle has interacted with thousands of student-athletes at the nearly 100 schools at which he has spoken over the last eight years.

Subjects include detailed chapters on issues such as Playing for a Demanding Coach, The Unparalleled Value of Team, and Should My Child Play on a Travel Team? The text has been reviewed by over 60 distinguished individuals, all of whom have experience in either sports parenting or education.

* Senator George Mitchell calls the book, A remarkable service to us all.
* Mark Murphy, Athletic Director at Northwestern and former captain of the Washington Redskins, says, Brilliant . . . by far the most comprehensive book that I have ever seen... **A "wonderfully written" guide for parents of student athletes, full of "excellent pointers drawn from the best research" (G. Louis Heath, Ph. D., __Sports Literature Association Journal__).**For more than a decade, former basketball coach Dan Doyle has been traveling the country, speaking to student-athletes and their parents about their involvement in and dedication to every sport imaginable. As founder and executive director of the Institute of International Sport at the University of Rhode Island, Doyle has heard countless stories about confrontations taking place on and off the court between coaches, players, parents, and even fans.Now Doyle has joined forces with Deborah Doermann Burch, a former schoolteacher and parenting expert, to write . Together, they surveyed more than 500 successful sports figures to gain additional insight into what parents can do to guide their children through the competitive, challenging, and often rewarding world of sports.In this book, parents will learn how to express themselves in various challenging situations, including learning that their children have been cut from teams; have become victims of team violence, hazing, or bullying; or are not receiving adequate and assumedly deserved playing time. For more than a decade, former basketball coach Dan Doyle has been traveling the country, speaking to student-athletes and their parents about their involvement in and dedication to every sport imaginable. As founder and executive director of the Institute of International Sport at the University of Rhode Island, Doyle has attended his fair share of sporting events and has heard countless stories about confrontations taking place on and off the court between coaches, players, parents, and even fans. As the years passed, Doyle gathered everything he'd learned and heard and joined forces with Deborah Doermann Burch, a former schoolteacher and parenting expert, to write The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting . Together, they surveyed more than 500 successful sports figures to gain additional insight into what parents can do to guide their children through the competitive, sometimes disheartening—though oftentimes rewarding—world of sports. In this book, parents will learn how to express themselves in various challenging situations, including learning that their children have been cut from teams; have become victims of team violence, hazing, or bullying; or are not receiving adequate and assumedly deserved playing time. If you are the parent of an athlete, no matter his or her age or skill level, The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting offers advice that will help you navigate the complicated and emotional world of children's athletics An all-inclusive manual written to guide parents through the ever-changing world of competitive...