How to Win at Sports Parenting: Maximizing the Sports Experience for You and Your Child [Paperback]

Jim Sundberg (Author), Janet Sundberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 18, 2000

It Can Be More Than Just a Game.
With the stresses our culture is experiencing today, it's more important than ever to find ways for families to come together as a strong unit. Competitive youth sports offer families ideal opportunities to support our kids, instill character, and teach lessons that will serve our children both now and in the future-all in a fun and natural setting. Unfortunately, many of us don't take full advantage of these sports experiences, of because we don't know how to begin.

Drawing from a rich background in sports, parenting, and family development, World Series hero Jim Sundberg and his wife, Janet, teach that the sports experience can provide unique opportunities for kids to deal with emotions and develop the skills necessary for healthy, life-enhancing interactions with others. But for this to happen, moms and dads need a practical plan.

The Sundbergs will help you build that plan by showing you How to Win at Sports Parenting.  Discover how to help your children...
--Enjoy to the fullest the sports they play
--Learn valuable sports-to-life lessons
--Deal with game day emotions in a healthy manner
--Develop crucial skills they will use the rest of their lives

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Former Kansas City Royal Jim Sundberg and wife Janet offer sensible and sensitive advice to parents of young athletes. The Sundbergs provide a few shocking anecdotes about hyper-competitive parents whose own insecurities come to rule their children's athletic participation. Positive parents, the Sundbergs counter, allow their kids to participate in sports just for fun, cheer them on without performance expectations, console them without reproach and are always ready to "listen, listen, listen." A child's sport should never dominate family life. "Your family is the team that should always come first," they write. The book contains a few vague references to God but is primarily a solid parenting book without religious preoccupations. (Mar.)
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"With practical advice, Jim and Janet show how to best parent a child in sports, eliminate the possible frustrations and disappointments, and bring out the best in a sports experience." --Dave Dravecky, President, Outreach of Hope

"How to Win at Sports Parenting puts kids and sports into the proper context for success - personal success and family success." --Richard Shultz, Executive Director, United States Olympic Committee

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: WaterBrook Press; 1 edition (April 18, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578563542
• ISBN-13: 978-1578563548
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #682,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars How to win at Sports Parenting: Maximizing the Sports..., May 17, 2001

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Todd Hutson (Southlake, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Win at Sports Parenting: Maximizing the Sports Experience for You and Your Child (Paperback)

This book is a must read for any parent with children involved in youth sports. Excellent characterization of typical parent fans, which one are you? Jim is a great presenter and has learned some of the lessons of pressing a child (his son) into baseball since that was what he was in. The real take away is the fact that no matter how much we want our kids to be little superstars, they will only really get to that point if they enjoy what they are doing. If they don't, they will decide to play some other thing at a moment that will break our hearts. Another key take-away is that we don't have to rush out at age 5 to get into the lessons 5 days a week in order to nuture a budding superstar. If they have talent, they will rise. If they don't have talent, they will resist the parents pressure and hate every moment of the activity. Jim has a baseball camp that he teaches some of these same principles for the kids and the parents. He and his wife give lectures on the subject as well.

5.0 out of 5 stars Voices of Experience, December 7, 2011

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This review is from: How to Win at Sports Parenting: Maximizing the Sports Experience for You and Your Child (Paperback)

The Sundbergs have definitely had the experience in sports at all levels as a player & parents & have managed to keep great priorities so I have great respect for what they bring to the table when they encourage parents in the appropriate ways to guide their kids' sports experiences. They offer wise, practical, realistic & needed advice for helping parents strike a good balance.