Whose Game Is It, Anyway?: A Guide to Helping Your Child Get the Most from Sports, Organized by Age and Stage | 
 enlarge | Authors: Richard D. Ginsburg, Stephen Durant, Amy Baltzell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618474609
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.083
EAN: 9780618474608
ASIN: 0618474609
Publication Date: March 10, 2006
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Product Description
In an era when parents and kids are overwhelmed by a sports-crazed,
win-at-all-costs culture, here is a comprehensive guide that helps
parents ensure a positive sports experience for their children. In
Whose Game Is It, Anyway? two of the country's leading youth sports
psychologists team up with a former Olympic athlete and expert on
performance enhancement to share what they have gleaned in more
than forty years of combined experience.
The result is a book unique in its message, format, and scope.
Through moving case studies and thoughtful analyses, Ginsburg,
Durant, and Baltzell advocate a preventive approach through a simple
three-step program: know yourself, know your child, know the environment.
They look at children in age groups, identifying the physical,
psychological, and emotional issues unique to each group and clarifying
what parents can expect from and desire for their kids at every stage.
They also explore myriad relevant topics, including parental pressure,
losing teams, steroid use, the overscheduled child, and much more.
Illuminating, impassioned, and inspiring, Whose Game Is It, Anyway?
is required reading for anyone raising?or educating?a child who
participates in sports.
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Lisa Bates (Cape Cod Massachusetts)
This book is one stop shopping for parents and coaches. In simple language with ample case studies, Whose Game Is It Anyways, covers everything, positive and negative, that adults need to know when working with youth in sports. Everything from child developmental psychology to difficult conversations with coaches and parents is covered in a no nonsense manner. I refer to this book often in a workshop I call "For the Love of the Game".
An Excellent Read February 9, 2007
Jerry Engelbach (Brooklyn, NY)
Disclosure: I'm personally acquainted with one of the authors.
For parents who have kids who aren't particularly athletic, this book can be an entertaining read, but it's not intended to show parents how to make athletes out of kids who have no aptitude or interest. I have no children at all, but I did enjoy reading the book for its anecdotes and insights.
The book's authors, clinical psychologists with plenty of hands-on experience coaching youth, give authority to common sense ideas that many well-read, psychologically sophisticated parents tend to honor more often in the breach than the observance. One hopes that this book will stimulate such parents -- who, no matter how intelligent, frequently fail to appreciate the intensity of the pressures besetting young people -- to more thoughtfully evaluate the actual influence of organized athletic activities on the development of their children.
The book is commendable for its relaxed, informal style and its refusal to prescribe bromides so typical of "self-help" books. There are no easy fixes for the myriad problems associated with growing up. But this book contains valuable advice to parents to assist them in helping their children who are involved in organized sports to (1) maximize the value of their positive experiences, and (2) acquire a healthy perspective towards the negative experiences that are an inevitable component of childhood.
Mother of two in San Francisco February 7, 2007
J. Amdur (San Francisco, CA United States)
I think this book is great. As the mother of two young girls, both of whom are participating in sports, I am grateful for the guidance it offers. Sports have played a hugely beneficial role in my own life and I want the same for my daughters. I intend to re-read it every year, and have ordered several for all my friends with kids!
A superb resource for any parent with children who play sports April 7, 2006
T. Styron (New Haven)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a clinical psychologist, sports fan and father of 3 young children, I found this book to be an extraordinary resource for any parent who wants their children to get the most out of sports, at any age. It is an extremely well written and organized book by a leading expert in the field of sports psychology and child development. I highly recommend it.
Great Book April 4, 2006
Sand (New York)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is helping me and my son to conquer the obstacles that are set in his way. This book is helping him to follow his dreams and have fun playing the sports that he loves. It is helping me with my role as a parent of an athletic child. I am so glad for the publication of this book. I could have used it 5 years ago. At times things can get very difficult; that is why we need this book to help us through our problems. The book should be mandatory for every person involved in the development of an athletic child.
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