Sports Success Rx! Your Child's Prescription For The Best Experience: How To Maximize Potential And Minimize Pressure

Aimed at parents and coaches of organized sports, this easygoing and friendly discussion of unrealistic performance pressure outlines both physical and emotional milestones that determine sports skill development in youth. It emphasizes that a focus on personal accomplishments is a much more effective practice than a focus on simply winning.

Aimed at parents and coaches of organized sports, this easygoing and friendly  discussion  of unrealistic performance pressure avoids  medical jargon and outlines both physical and emotional milestones that determine sports skill development in youth. Revealing that body chemistry, thinking skills, and emotional maturity all play important roles  in athletic training, this guide introduces differing developmental timetables,   emphasizing that a focus on personal accomplishments is  a much more effective  practice than a focus on  simply winning. Clever chapter titles  proceed from  "First Serve" and "Free Throw" to "9th Inning" and "Final Lap and Cool Down," with each chapter  providing a questionnaire that gauges a child's readiness for the skill levels discussed.