Annotated Bibliography
Engh. F. (2002). Why Johnny Hates Sports. Garden City Park, NY. Square One
In this text, the author looks at the various reasons why some youths hate sports. According to the author, close to 8% of youths show disinterest in sports and in his own opinion, this is quite a substantial percentage. Most of the reasons the author advances in this well researched text seem to be informed by the interference of parents in choosing for their children the specific sports to engage in. The author enhances his research with some real life factual examples derived from his extensive interviews with sports coaches, parents as well as the youth themselves. In doing so, he goes a long way to enhance the relevance of this text.
Fish, J. (2003). 101 Ways to be a Terrific Sports Parent: Making Athletics a Positive
Experience for Your Child. New York, NY. Simon & Schuster, Inc
Just like its title suggests, this book is a refreshing insight into how as a parent, one can make a difference as far as enhancing youth participation in sports is concerned. It is important to note that having been a sports coach for the last one decade, Fish is well placed to talk about youth sports enhancement and the strategies needed to ensure that youth participation in sports is increased. Fish particularly stresses the role of he parents as far as the enhancement of youth sports is concerned and he does not shy away from calling for a close working relationship between the parents and Youth sports coaches so as to ensure youth sports develop going forward.
Rhoads, J. (2009). The Joy of Youth Sports: Creating the Best Youth Sports
Experience for Your Child. Avaplay Press
This is a well researched text that mainly concerns itself with the benefits of youth sports. Though at first instance the author may seem to have little to do with sports, essentially because he is in the counseling field, he seems well versed on the benefits accrued once the youth embrace sports. His is a well developed research piece that seems to pick from where Engh left by carrying out extensive interviews with youths, parents as well as coaches. The book also contains insights from psychologists and other experts in a wide range of fields hence enhancing its relevance further.
Susanji, D & Stewart, C. (2007). Specialization in Sport: How Early? How
Necessary? Retrieved on February 6, 2011 from; http://www.coachesinfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=303:specialization&catid=91:general-articles&Itemid=170
The authors in this case concern themselves with some of the most contentious issues in regard to youth sports. It is important to note that this text deviates from what seems to be a favorite topic of authors of youth sports books i.e. the benefits of youth sports and how to enhance youth sports amongst the youths. By concerning themselves with specialization in sport as well as how early the same should begin, the authors of this text seem to open the area for further research. In his text however, they base their arguments on factual information regarding the necessity of specialization in youth sports.
Wolff, R. (1997). Good Sports: The Concerned Parents Guide to Competitive Youth
Sports. Sports Publishing, LLC
This is a book that explores more or less the same subject covered by Rhoads and Engh above. However, in a sharp deviation from the works of the two authors above, the author is of the opinion that parents have a greater role to play than even the coaches as far as youth sports are concerned. He argues that parents are the main sponsors of the youth s far as sports are concerned and hence their role remains critical as far as youth sports enhancement is concerned. This book is also well researched and bases most of its information or presentations on earlier findings of research in the same topic.
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