Whose game is it, anyway?
Subtitle: a guide to helping your child get the most from sports, organized by age and stage
By: Richard D. Ginsburg and Stephen Durant with Amy Baltzell.
Contributors: Durant, Stephen.; Baltzell, Amy.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780618474608
Subjects: Sports for children
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years (1-5): Safety and the joy of movement; title: The elementary school years (6-12): Building competencies, exploring interests, and making friends; title: The teen years (13-18): Identity development, independence, and achievement; title: Higher learning and higher stakes (19+): College sports and sports for life; title: Should we push our children? How much?; title: What to do when our kids' athletic abilities and interests differ from our own; title: Boys and girls: similarities and differences in sports; title: Rage and explosions: learning to practice emotional control in sports; title: Quitting, burning out, and moving on: helping children know when enough is enough; title: Does the coach know best? Knowing when coaches are doing right or wrong by our children; title: When is a good team bad and a bad team good? Recognizing best team experiences for kids; title: Overweight children: surviving the teasing and prejudice and finding healthy exercise and eating patterns; title: Eating disorders, body image, steroids, and supplements; title: Tips for top performance: the art of being SHARPP; title: Questions and answers: finding solutions for kids' dilemmas in sports.