Changing the Game

Changing the Game
Author: John O'Sullivan
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1614486468

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The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses, scholarships, and professional aspirations. Changing the Game gives adults a new paradigm and a game plan for raising happy, high performing children, and provides a national call to action to return youth sports to our kids.

Home Team Advantage

Home Team Advantage
Author: Brooke de Lench
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0061746886

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Over the past decade, the stakes in youth sports have reached startling heights; the pressure to win often eclipses the desire to have fun. Sports injuries have increased tenfold; aggression on and off the field—between kids, parents, and coaches—is at a fever pitch; and drug and alcohol use among young athletes is on the rise. While there are plenty of books that help the best-intentioned parent, most of them are written by men, for men. They do not address concerns specific to mothers, nor empower them to confidently step onto the out-of-control playground to assume whatever role they choose—spectator, advocate, administrator, coach, fund-raiser, or team mom. Home Team Advantage is an essential resource manual that will inspire women to confidently tackle some of the issues preventing their kids from enjoying sports. Brooke de Lench authoritatively covers issues ranging from ensuring playing time and confronting out-of-control coaches to countering the "winning at all costs" mentality. Packed with real-life anecdotes and information from experts, Home Team Advantage provides constructive, practical, and forward-thinking advice to help mothers understand the critical role they can play in putting the words fun, game, and play back into youth sports.

Teaching Bullies

Teaching Bullies
Author: Jennifer M. Fraser
Publisher: Motion Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2015-08-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780994082022

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Teaching Bullies tells the story of fourteen students who came forward with detailed testimonies of what they were experiencing at the hands of their teachers on the basketball court. How they were treated by school administrators, lawyers and educational authorities is cause for concern and reveals that the last bastion of accepted abuse may well be sports.

The Bully Coach

The Bully Coach
Author: Gabrielle Charbonnet
Publisher: Skylark
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780553482997

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Kelly, Maya, and their friends are thilled to learn that Lugo Bigue, the world-famous gymnastics coach, is coming to teach an intensive two-week session to the Georgia Gold Gymnasts. They plan to do everything he tells them. But when Lugo arrives, he's not at all what the girls expected. Lugo praises their strengths, but he's harsh--even cruel, when it comes to their flaws. And after he makes Maya cry, Kelly organizes a mutiny against him. So what if he's coached several gymnasts to Olympic medal glory. The girls don't need Lugo--or his abuse--to win. Do they?

The Bullying Breakthrough

The Bullying Breakthrough
Author: Jonathan McKee
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1683229584

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In a world full of caring adults, how is it that we keep missing the cries of hurting kids? “Today, when the bell rings, kids might leave their school campus, but they can never escape the other world, a world where mockers and intimidators thrive. Ironically, they carry a gateway to that world right in their pockets, because they see that world as an avenue of escape. . .but in reality, it’s putting them in bondage." --Jonathan McKee With chapters including: Digital Hurt The Escape Key Why Didn’t You Say Anything? Meet the Principal Real-World Solutions and More! An expert on youth and youth culture, McKee shares his own heart-rending story and offers a sobering glimpse into the rapidly changing world of bullies, bystanders, and the bullied while providing helpful ways to connect with these kids, open doors of dialogue, and give them the encouragement they need and the validation they're searching for. . .too often in all the wrong places. The Bullying Breakthrough promises real-world help for dealing with today’s bullying culture.

Successful Leaders Aren't Bullies

Successful Leaders Aren't Bullies
Author: Matt Paknis
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781682617175

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My father loved power and expressed himself through domestic violence and bullying. I never thought I’d see that in the workplace too. As often happens with domestic abuse, I was vulnerable to being sexually abused, which happened between my fifth and eighth grades. Through good therapy, I found salvation in the two things I knew best: love and violence. I found football. I loved the teamwork, friendships, drills, the strategy. I was also good. Eventually, I was recruited by numerous Ivy League universities. I chose Brown. During senior year I was offered a coaching position of Brown’s freshmen linemen. I jumped at the chance. This led to a unique opportunity to coach with Don James, a mentor of coaches at the University of Washington or with reigning National Championship Coach and Sportsman of the Year, Joe Paterno, at Penn State. I preferred Coach James’s style, but my father bullied me into working for Paterno—and Jerry Sandusky—the two most vile and ruthless bullies in NCAA coaching history. In addition to Sandusky’s horrific and hidden pedophilia, Paterno’s and his staff’s bizarre behaviors, abuse of power, control dynamics, bullying, selfishness, narcissism, and deceptions forever soured me to college football coaching. I was motivated to earn an MBA with a focus on how good sports concepts, namely great leadership and teamwork, can affect organizations. From my experiences, bullying is epidemic. Victims may not realize they are being bullied, they may not know where to turn for help and advocacy, and they may not know how to stop this vile behavior. Successful Leaders Aren’t Bullies presents actual bullying cases I’ve experienced and addressed in the workplace with clients over the past twenty-six years. It empowers good leaders to choose leadership and to understand the benefits of leading with healthy behaviors and to intervene and to stop bullying. It will inspire and mobilize bullied victims to overcome and to thrive by presenting examples of resilient and healthy individuals and organizations.

InSideOut Coaching

InSideOut Coaching
Author: Joe Ehrmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439182981

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Ehrmann, whom "Parade" calls "the most important coach in America," describes his coaching philosophy and explains how sports can transform lives.

Why Good Kids Act Cruel

Why Good Kids Act Cruel
Author: Carl Pickhardt
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1402246226

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Why do many good children treat one another so badly? This is a question parents eventually face and most start thinking about as their children prepare for high school. But the hard truth is, high school is too late. The pre-teen years are actually when it begins, when the cruelty is even worse, causing more anxiety and stress for children already facing an enormous amount of change in their lives. Early adolescence is a phase of anxiety, of uncertainty, of insecurity. To make matters worse, although all kids are going through the same transformation, none of them share what it is like, each feeling alone, isolated, and unique. The result is that even fantastic kids will do and say harmful things. Why Good Kids Act Cruel is the first book to give you an understanding of why cruelty happens during these years and how to help your child through these difficult times. She didn't make it; she was born with it: her nose. And in elementary school that was okay. But now in seventh grade, sometimes other girls would tease, "What's the matter Blaise, you having a bad nose day?" Looking in the mirror before school, she could see what they were making fun of. One day, a girl she had beaten out for a starting spot on the basketball team threw a nickname at her: "Snout." Some of the girl's friends picked it up, and it stuck. Blaise acted like she didn't care. But as she started to hate her nose, she started to hate herself.

Bully Nation

Bully Nation
Author: Susan Eva Porter
Publisher: Paragon House
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781557789044

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The Columbine school shooting caused the United States to ramp up the national discussion of school bullying and the hasty implementation of many new anti-bullying rules and "zero-tolerance" policies. Some of these policies have led to serious unintended consequences. In this timely book, Susan Eva Porter, a seasoned and licensed school professional, explains how our current bully language, school policies, and anti-bully activists are trying to address the problem of school bullying in ways that actually make problems worse. Some policies treat children as adults and adults as children. Unnecessary strife among all parties involved, and the impeded social development of the children involved, can be a byproduct of popular policies. Especially in middle-school years, children are in a stage of development that involves testing boundaries and learning to relate to others. They need to gain resilience that will enable them to function well as adults. Bullying is often addressed in ways that arrest the social development of both the "bully" and the "victim." Porter, an expert in child development, sets a new standard for our understanding of America's approach to bullying, and how we can dramatically improve outcomes, in this easy-to-understand book. Bully Nation should be read by school administrators, counselors, policymakers, teachers, psychologists, and parents. It is a much needed analysis with common-sense solutions to one of our nation's most mis-addressed problems.

Bullyproof Your Child for Life

Bullyproof Your Child for Life
Author: Joel Haber
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780399533181

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View our feature on Joel Haber's Bullyproof Your Child For Life. As featured in the New York Times-an expert's proven technique for stamping out bullying. "Bully Coach" Joel Haber, Ph.D., is one of the foremost experts in the prevention of bullying. A pioneer in the field, he has worked with thousands of kids, parents, teachers, counselors, and others to understand the root causes of the bullying dynamic-from identifying bully types to exposing the reasons why kids become bullies, targets, or bystanders-and stamp it out once and for all. Delivering a practical, supportive, and step-by-step "bullyproofing prescription" that yields lasting results for both boys and girls, from grade school through high school, Bullyproof Your Child for Life offers specific action steps to help any child build resilience and confidence, develop compassion and trust, and thrive in school, camp, sports, and beyond. Empowering, instructive, and inspiring, this muchneeded guide will help parents detect the early signs of bullying and intervene-with lasting results.