Sports Success Rx!: Your Child's Prescription for the Best Experience

by Paul R. Stricker

Book Overview

Aimed at parents and coaches of organized sports, this easygoing and friendly guide outlines the physical and emotional milestones that determine sports skill development in youth. Dr. Stricker avoids... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581102275
• ISBN13: 9781581102277
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Pediatric Sports

As a Board Certified Sports Medicine physician, I was very impressed to read this book written by a physician for a non-medical audience. In today's "win at all cost" society, this book highlights, in great detail and with obvious passion by the author, a practical and informative guideline on sports participation for our nation's youth. This is a must read by parents who have children of all ages who are currently or will be participating in sports. I applaud the author for this worthwhile undertaking. Jorge O. Rodriguez, DO CAQSM

Sport Success Rx!

Dr. Stricker is ultimately qualified to help you make decisions regarding sports training and participation and setting appropriate parameters for your children.

Healthy outlook

This is a great book about keeping youth sports in perspective. Dr. Stricker does an excellent job of explaining the physical and mental stages a child goes through from toddler to the teen years. If little Johnny can't hit the ball when he is four, this book helps explain why he has trouble at that age. If you have children in athletics or are a coach of children, then I would highly recommend reading this book.It will give you a reality check. Hopefully, this book will make you and your child enjoy his/her sports activities more.

Great read, easy and extremely informative!

This is an incredible treasure for the parents and coaches of young athletes. It is very well written, easy to understand and thoughtful. Dr. Stricker's knowledge on the subject of physical and emotions developmental levels of children and the impact this has on sports is supurb. Being a parent of athletes himself give a uniques perspective to the book. Do you know any parents who push their kids to perform in sports way past the "fun zone"? This book is for them, but it's also for those of us who are trying to make sense of the increased commitments that are pressed upon our youth involved in most sports today.

A Must Read !

This book is great! A must read for coaches, especially of very young athletes. As a parent, I gained alot of knowledge and felt this book was a reputable source of information. This book explains so much about what kids can actually do, compared to what is expected of them. The nutrition information is very helpful and I learned alot there as well.