Product Overview
The content featured on this website is the new publication, Sports and Your Young Athlete, by Dr. Frank Smoll. The book provides comprehensive information that assists parents in enhancing the well-being of their child in sports and other areas of life. Major questions and problems associated with youth sports are thoroughly analyzed from the perspectives of child development, sport psychology, and sports medicine. Click the button below to view a full list of chapters in Sports and Your Young Athlete.
The author, Dr. Frank Smoll, is a pioneer in the area of developmental sport psychology. The Blog feature of this website will enable customers to read posts from the author and send questions about youth sports. Come back often...new discussion points will be posted frequently.
Sports and Your Young Athlete contains 9 chapters that address a wide range of issues. We also have published a Bonus Chapter for parents who are volunteer coaches. Click the button below to view the detailed Table of Contents.
We are also introducing the parent educational video entitled, Mastery Approach to Parenting in Sports (MAPS). The 43-minute MAPS video teaches parents how to create a mastery climate—a learning environment that emphasizes skill development, personal and team success, maximum effort, and fun.
The product options (at the bottom of most pages) are designed to fit your needs. If you are a parent, check out options 1, 2, 3, and 4 below. If you are a league adminstrator and want to provide informative materials for volunteer coaches, check out option 5 below.
Click the "Product Options" below to learn more and to order.