Reddit mentions: The best children sports coaching books

2 books come to mind, coaching climbing and climbing games

Coaching climbing is just what it sounds like, a book about coaching. It's got a lot of information you may or may not need, but it's a great resource for drills and activities, some of which take the form of games. Bonus points for pictures of Tommy Caldwell and Chris Sharma in their early teens.

Climbing games is a tiny little book with 50 or so "games" in it. Some of them are great, some of them are useless, and some of them don't even make sense, but it only costs $11 and it's easy to flip through right before a class if you need quick ideas.

See if you can convince your climbing gym to buy both of those books. It's a pretty paltry investment for a gym, and they're worth it to help new instructors come up with fun and useful classes.

The Official Coaching Book of KNVB is excellent
http://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Soccer-Official-Dutch-Association/dp/1890946044/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697636&sr=8-1&keywords=KNVB+book

As is both of these books from Horst Wein:
Developing Youth Footballers
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Youth-Football-Players-Horst/dp/0736069488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697714&sr=8-1&keywords=developing+youth+football+players

Developing Game Intelligence in Soccer
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Game-Intelligence-Soccer-Horst/dp/1591640717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697768&sr=8-1&keywords=developing+game+intelligence+in+soccer

All three offer a great set of coaching guidelines, a solid philosophy and plenty of drills and simplified games for all age levels. The "Developing Youth Footballers" is used by the Spanish football federation.

Might also find The Philosophies of Louis van Gaal and the Ajax Coaches worth a read, as someone else mentioned, Teambuilding by Michels is like reading the Bible.

Also check out zonalmarking.net he has a list of many, many great books on there, most of which I've read.

Guillem Balaque has a few good books that aren't coaching guideline type books but I found both to be worth reading, "A Season on the Brink" about Rafa's Champions League season with Liverpool and his more recent "Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning" is very inspiring, I could not put it down, really, fantastic book makes you want to quit your real job and coach 24/7.

This decision will lose Zac Taylor the team. This is a guy who decided by the eighth game of the season to use six offensive lineman and two tight ends to attempt to run the ball. Taylor talks about trust, stability, and loyalty, then decides to play a 4th round QB after indicating Dalton isn't the issue with the team. No player is going to trust him now.

Of active players, Dalton is 8th and 9th respectively in 4th Quarter comebacks and game-winning drives.

He is tied for 3rd in NFL next gen stats with Dak Prescott and Tom Brady for throwing "dimes" aka in tight windows of thirty or more yards. Much like Carson Palmer, Dalton is being thrown out like garbage. I could see the Vikings jettisoning Kirk Cousins and Zimmer bringing in Dalton.

Heck of a run for Dalton to be a 2nd round pick for an unstable franchise where a wasted elite QB (Palmer) stood up against Mike Brown, Dalton gets paired with Green and does well early in his career and has bad luck after peaking in 2015.

I sincerely hope that AJ Green goes "It's ok coach" and then decides to sign with the Patriots, Packers, or even Vikings also.

Here is my early Christmas present to Zac Taylor: Merry Christmas Zac

This is a team of veterans team with a slim window and should have gone after someone like Bruce Arians. Arians made the Cardinals competitive with a bunch of vets.

All a writer and his pal every do is obsess over how bad Dalton is. I know we lost every playoff game, but the Dalton-Green era won consistently early on and had some exciting wins and winning regular season records. Take this to heart, the Dolphins have had 21 different starting QBs since Dan Marino retired, be careful for what you wish for.

We coached an U8 team last year and are now starting in our U9 season.

I would focus on basic techniques like dribbling, shooting, passing, change of direction and basic game intelligence.

Play many small simplified games in different variations which provoke what you want to teach. A good game form is the best coach.

We have this as our basic game in our training:
Mini Soccer

We play this and it's variations very often.

For example if we do a session about change of direction, we would start with drill like this: Lucassen. Then we would do a 1on1 game like here (i would do the one at 2:40): Multigoals. And then go to a suitable variation of Mini Soccer like this: Mini Soccer - diagonally

I allways recommend this book for this age group: Horst Wein-Developing Youth Footbll Players


And let them practice every technique with both feet equally, allways!

If you are looking for scientific research on positive/negative effects on the body due to youth racing, this book was fantastic: https://www.amazon.ca/Elite-Youth-Cycling-Alfred-Nimmerichter/dp/1138086843

Pricey to buy but if you have access to any post-secondary or library you should be able to find a pdf for free.

Looks like there is a 3rd edition. Know if that one would be better or not?

If you really want to take this seriously, you should get Coaching Climbing. Or enroll your kid in youth climbing at your local gym once they are 6 (different gyms have different min-ages).

Go for the Goal: Techniques and Strategies for the Complete Soccer Player

I recommend this book to all first-time head coaches:
https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Hockey-Successfully-Advanced-Special/dp/0736046364

Good section on managing the expectations of players, parents, and your association.

Cut the bad attitudes. You'll have to deal with them all season. Who cares how many games you win if you have to suffer assholes all winter? I'd rather have a 50-50 or losing season with kids (and parents) I enjoy working with.

My spouse came out to me as MTF last June and we are still in the early phases of transition, and will start HRT in December (she can’t wait). For us, it was best to start very slow. We have known each other for 21 years, together for 19 and married for 11 years. We have two children, a boy that is 10 and daughter who is 5. It was a huge shock to me and in the early days, we (well, me) didn’t know if we were even staying together. I am still working on the grief process. What has been really helpful is communication. My partner had a lot of trauma and needed to work through that with a therapist individually and I also have my own individual therapist. I would suggest communicating with any change, I felt betrayed by my partner when they would go ahead with the next step and not discuss. (Like all of a sudden you are shaving and tucking?) It felt like a secret to me personally, when that happened, although I do understand it was to make her feel better, I still wanted to be involved. Like your wife, I questioned why this person married me. It all stems a lot of fear, betrayal, anger, etc.
Communication, communication, communication. We are still working hard at it, and will probably get a gender marriage therapist too. The Trans partner handbook
I saw this as a resource too for your partner. I need to get it for myself.
But definitely each get your own therapy. She will have to process this grief.
I had to work in therapy to get past the blame; I blamed my partner for a long time. But through therapy and my own training, I realized and accepted this is nobody’s fault and just the hand of cards we were each dealt.