Disgruntled parents, win at all costs, troublemakers, playing time, balancing talent, and tracking dropouts... These are just some of the issues faced headon in Coaching Kids.

Coaches experience many problems – many created by excluding parents from the process. Coaching Kids provides concrete ways to involve parents in the process as well as stepbystep help with kidcoaching basics and trouble management. It is the perfect primer for organizing and coaching kids – K through middle school.

Much has been written about coaching kids. Most books are sport specific – covering only one sport and going into depth on its mechanics. Others are more general – mostly feelgood psychological stuff. They often focus on how to make the participants feel better – not necessarily perform better. Very little, however, has been written on the basic challenge of coaching kids in general, regardless of the sport, and even less on organizing kid sports from the coach's and league's viewpoints.