Parenting Athletes

The Unstoppable Athlete (Parent Edition) Competition anxiety and overthinking putting a wrench in your athlete’s chase after victory? Learn ways to help them overcome mental hurdles and embrace true potential. Struggling to find a training plan that doesn’t leave a young competitor impatient? Certain they could make it into the record books if they could just discover their edge? Wishing for a peek inside the minds of greats like LeBron James, Simone Biles, and Lionel Messi? After working with over 5,000 athletes, coach and author Andrew J Simpson has identified exactly what makes a ...

A change has occurred — youth sports have been professionalized and there has been a perversion of potential. It has become scholarships over development, trophies over toughness, and talent over tenacity. The professionalization has created an environment of externally driven, perfectionist, and stressed competitors. Parenting athletes also requires such a vast amount of sacrifice both emotionally and financially. Are we doing it correctly? This book will help you empower your kids to build their mental toughness. In this cutting-edge book, you’ll develop specific strategies: • Find ...

Athletic success comes from a strong mindset more than strong muscle power. You don’t have to be born mentally tough–you can develop this vital trait with hard work and consistency. Loaded with simple, actionable strategies, this guidebook will help you build mental strength, become resilient, and achieve the top spot in your game.

Your athlete does not need a perfect parent. They need a parent who knows when to push, when to listen, and when to step back. Youth sports can test confidence, motivation, discipline, relationships, and judgment—often all at once. The Parent’s Playbook gives you 24 practical plays for the moments sports parents face most: bad games, playing time, coaches, pressure, setbacks, motivation, training, burnout, recruiting, and more. The goal is not to control the journey. It is to help your athlete become more confident, disciplined, resilient, independent, and capable of owning it.

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.

Troy Horne here. Your mental-toughness guide! I am here to help parents understand how to help your young athlete navigate this mental-toughness journey. I know where you are, and I know how to help you help your young athlete find their mental toughness.

Today's youth-sports experience provokes countless questions for well-intentioned parents. How young should kids start playing sports? Should they specialize—and when? What should a parent do when their kid is not getting the playing time they think their child deserves? How do parents encourage children without overwhelming them? Raising Empowered Athletes has answers for every youth-sports situation with an overarching goal of not only helping parents raise strong athletes but also nurture great human beings who are empowered to succeed on and off the playing field.

In this groundbreaking book, Rebecca Smith, M.A.A, sought after Mental Performance Coach, former fearful gymnast, gymnastics coach, and mom demystifies the process of guiding your athlete through a mental block, without being too controlling or too involved.

Mentality Wins: The Athlete’s Playbook for Thriving in Sport and Life is the audiobook for athletes who want more than motivation, they want a repeatable mental edge they can trust when the pressure spikes and the moment gets loud. Narrated by the authors - two former athletes turned sports clinicians - this audiobook feels like having your own performance coach in your headphones. Jenkins and O’Brien bring decades of expertise to the topic. Jenkins teaches at Harvard Medical School and serves as clinical and sport psychologist for the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox.

Parenting a young athlete can be inspiring, exciting, and deeply stressful — sometimes all in the same season. Close games, tough losses, coach decisions, injuries, and post-game conversations can bring out strong emotions for both kids and parents. It’s easy to feel pressure on the sidelines, even when your goal is simply to support your child. Emotional Regulation for Athletes’ Parents offers practical, science-informed strategies to help you stay calm during competition, respond thoughtfully after games, and guide your athlete through challenges with confidence and connection.

In The Parent Edge, former MLB player and certified mindset coach Chad Hermansen delivers a practical and heartfelt guide for parents navigating the emotional rollercoaster of youth sports. Drawing on his own experience as a pro athlete, father of four, and mental performance coach, Chad shares the single most powerful tool he’s ever learned, the CTFAR self-coaching model and teaches parents how to use it to shift from reactive to intentional.

Nobody is coming to rescue you from the life you keep choosing. Most people do not blow up their lives all at once. They drift. They tolerate. They call it “being practical.” They stay in the job, relationship, identity, routine, or version of themselves that no longer fits because it is familiar, stable, and only quietly eating them alive. Burn Your Boats is a no BS, irreverent, and practical guide for anyone who knows something needs to change but has spent way too long pretending everything is “fine.

New York Times best-selling author Kevin Kruse presents the remarkable findings of his study of ultraproductive people. Based on survey research and interviews with billionaires, Olympic athletes, straight-A students, and over 200 entrepreneurs - including Mark Cuban, Kevin Harrington, James Altucher, John Lee Dumas, Pat Flynn, Grant Cardone, and Lewis Howes - Kruse answers the question: What are the secrets to extreme productivity?

A New York Times bestselling author takes a rollicking deep dive into the ultra-competitive world of youth hockey Rich Cohen, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse and Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, turns his attention to...

Your child's jump shot isn't the problem. Their mindset is. You've sat in the bleachers. You've replayed the game on the silent car ride home. You've wondered when to push, when to stay quiet, and when to simply say, "I loved watching you play." Here's what most sports parents eventually discover: physical skills aren't enough. Your child can be first in the gym and last to leave — and still fall apart the moment the pressure rises, a coach raises their voice, or they miss two shots in a row. That's not a talent problem. That's a mental game problem. And most parents were never taught how...

Does your young athlete struggle with in-game confidence? Turn your setbacks into breakthroughs – level up your game, build self-confidence, and start winning! Quote from Lewis Hamilton, the renowned racing driver: “The winning mindset is the will to succeed. It’s the will to want something, that yearning for something greater, that unknown of how great you can be or how good you could be at something. It’s that worry of failure and that fear that you have and overcoming that fear.” Hamilton’s words emphasize the importance of determination, overcoming obstacles, and pushing ...

A mental toughness playbook for athletes, parents, and coaches. In sports, and in life, mental toughness matters - even more than raw talent and skill. But young athletes can't develop it, and master other vital aspects of the "inner game", on their own. Coaches and parents play a vital role as well. Angeron draws on his expertise as a sport psychology coach and his background as a college athlete and baseball scout to help listeners overcome the fear, doubt, and negativity that derail players and teams.

In this 2nd edition of ALLEY-OOP! The Ultimate Assist for Parents of Athletes, NBA & D1 college basketball Mom Dr. Z(anthia) shares her expertise in nurturing champions both on and off the court. This guide, tailored for parents of athletes across all ages and sports, distills Dr. Z's decades of experience into 22 essential insights. Drawing from her background as a retired school principal and founder of Impoweredd Educational Consulting, Dr. Z offers invaluable advice on navigating sports and education programs to help athletes thrive and meet their goals. This second edition also ...

Are you tired of watching your young athlete struggle under pressure or lose confidence after setbacks? The difference between those who thrive under stress and those who crumble isn’t raw talent—it’s mental toughness and discipline. This audiobook isn’t another shallow pep-talk or rehashed list of clichés. It’s a down-to-earth, actionable playbook packed with real exercises, relatable stories, and proven strategies for competitive young athletes.

Soccer star and Olympic gold medalist Christie Pearce Rampone and sports neuropsychologist Dr. Kristine Keane share the best practices that athletes, parents, and coaches can use to turn the lessons learned through sports into lifelong skills. Sports offer a vital path for children to get...