Positive Sports Parenting: How "Second-Goal" Parents Raise Winners in Life Through Sports - Softcover

Youth sports can be a wonderful shared experience between parent and athlete. But, too often a win-at-all-cost mentality creates stress, tension, and frustration for both parent and child.Positive Sports Parenting by Jim Thompson provides 60 concise pages of insightful and sensible advice on how parents can help children get the most from sports. In a clear, inviting voice, Thompson reminds parents to worry less about winning and focus on the “Second-Goal” of using sports to teach life lessons.Packed with accessible ideas and easy-to-use tools, Positive Sports Parenting shows parents practical ways to: · Create lasting, positive memories with their child through sports · Use sports to teach and reinforce vital character traits · Work effectively with coaches – even the bad ones · Support their children on the sidelines so they can perform at their best · Handle pre-game jitters and make the most of car rides home · Deal effectively with common dilemmas faced by sports parents

Jim Thompson is one of the country’s preeminent youth sport experts and author of five books on youth sports, including Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports, Shooting in the Dark, and The Double-Goal Coach. He is an Ashoka Fellow and was named by the Institute for International Sport as one of the top Sports Educators in the U.S. He founded Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) in 1998 at Stanford University, where he teaches classes in coaching, leadership, and sport and spirituality.