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Information on books and DVDs relating to parenting youth soccer players

How To Coach Very Young Soccer Players
It shows excellent "on the field" techniques for teaching U-6 and U-8 players how to kick, pass, dribble, and receive the ball, as well as how to teach basic rules and a description of the basic positions.  
 
Raising a Team Player: Teaching Kids Lasting Values on the Field, on the Court and on the Bench
Sheehy shares lessons and wisdom learned from more than seventeen years of working with young athletes. He encourages parents to get involved, discusses working with children on various aspects of sportsmanship, and offers advice on appropriate ways to praise, encourage, temper, support, and teach young team players.
 
Catch Them Being Good : Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls
This guide to coaching female athletes of all ages shows how to build a team and provides invaluable advice on the differences between coaching males and females. 
 
An American Parent's Guide to Soccer
A "must have" book for parents whose children are playing organized soccer. Instead of just explaining the rules of the game or teaching you how to coach the game, Coach Sanderson takes you through the game in the manner that you are typically exposed to it as a parent.
 
Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports  
Provides information on a wide array of youth sports topics from health, safety and nutrition to the psychology of parenting a young athlete.
 
WIN OR LOSE: A Guide to Sports Parenting
This little book consists of twenty-six brief chapters with such titles as "Listen to Yourself in the Stands," "Keep the Focus on Learning," and "Forget About Scholarships for a While."
 
101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent: Making Athletics a Positive Experience for Your Child
The determining factor in whether a child between the ages of six and seventeen enjoys athletics is his or her parents - not the sport, coach, or team.
 
Soccer Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide
This guide can explain it all! A comprehensive look at the sport, explaining the rules and strategies used at soccer's many levels, including youth and college games.  It is carefully designed to be used as a reference tool, with a complete glossary and index. 
 
Just Let the Kids Play: How to Stop Other Adults from Ruining Your Child's Fun and Success in Youth Dports  
Focusing on the five most popular sports, the authors outline ways to set up teams that foster fair play, skill development and social interaction.
 
Molding Young Athletes: How Parents and Coaches Can Positively Influence Kids in Sports
Instead of just another manual teaching physical skills, this long-overdue book helps parents and coaches positively develop all kids from the inside out. With this common-sense resource, adults can instill the desirable and critical values of self-confidence, motivation, anger and pressure control, optimism, sportsmanship, self-discipline, perseverance, and joy.
 
Games Girls Play : Understanding and Guiding Young Female Athletes 
"For the 2 million parents of girls who play intramural sports, the comment, 'you play like a girl,' is considered a compliment. Games Girls Play, written by sports psychologist and former figure skater Caroline Silby with ESPN reporter Shelley Smith, moves beyond the widely reported benefits of sports for young women--offering both parents and coaches a fresh, smart guide for responding to the needs of the young female athlete."

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