What Size Balls Do I Need?: A Roadmap for Survival In The Dizzying World of Youth Sports

Product Description

In What Size Balls Do I Need? Coach Steve Morris delivers a perspective injection for parents and coaches trying to navigate the $17 billion youth sports industry. The pressure to choose programs that will position budding athletes for success and glory can be all-consuming. Teasing that “our sons and daughters have a better chance of owning a professional team than playing on one,” Coach Steve gives parents permission to relax and focus on the fun within the “ten-year window” of their kids’ participation in sports. Using the wisdom gained from navigating thousands of girls and boys and their parents through the gauntlet of youth sports, he has created a book filled with humor and personal stories that tackles crucial topics like:

Why “potential” and “expectation” are the two dirtiest words in youth sports
How to recognize a toxic coach and the steps to take to protect your child
Why we need to rethink our definitions of victory and success
The most precarious part of the game – the ride home
The dangers of living vicariously through your child (and how not to be that parent)
Who gets to the “next level” and how do they do it
What the post-Covid landscape of youth sports will look like

Coach Steve seeks to tame the national frenzy surrounding youth sports and return sanity, balance and fun to the one arena where everyone gets to be a kid.

Review

I have reported on and written about elite sports for three decades. As a dad, there is no topic more important to me than the issue of youth sports and the outside influences that have crept into that world and diminished the experience for so many kids and families. Whether you’re a parent, a journalist or a fan, I highly recommend this important and entertaining book.

Seth Davis – Journalist, broadcaster and author of “Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams”

Funny, frank, warm, and wise, Coach Steve’s book is both a love letter to youth sport and an impassioned plea to restore sanity to its playing fields. Essential reading for all parents.

Jeff Melvoin, Emmy-award winning writer-producer, former Chief Coach Administrator AYSO Region 69.

Coach Steve has this amazing gift to make sports FUN, his attitude, his ability his smile are PRICELESS! Simply, Coach Steve is the Wooden, Belichick and Coach K of YOUTH SPORTS! Every parent needs to read this book! DON’T QUIT!

Jake Steinfeld, Fitness icon “Body by Jake”

Steve Morris is a genius! Who knew that having fun was the best way to raise your kids?!!!

Claude Knobler, Author of “More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia”