The Real Athletes Guide

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Summary: Educates without too much parenting
Review: My son, a high school freshman, plays basketball and baseball. This is the perfect time for him to read The Real Athletes Guide. It will help make his high school years more focused and meaningful, and help him balance sports, academics, and social life. I'd recommend this thoughtful and thought-provoking book to everyone who has a son or daughter-or niece or nephew-who is a high school or college athlete. It inspires the proper attitude toward life, and it educates without too much parenting. Its conversational style and the cartoons appeal to young athletes. The special "Message to Parents" and actually the whole book tell you, the parent of an athlete, everything you wanted to know about student athletics but were afraid to ask. I particularly enjoyed a section called "Selecting a college is like buying a car for the first time."

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Summary: The best book for every parent of a young athlete.
Review: The thrill of the adrenaline rush of a talented athlete performing at his or her best is only exceeded by the horror of the adrenaline crash when that athlete succumbs to unnecessary injuries, exploitation by opportunists, or the consequences of having no back up plan besides their sport. The Real Athletes Guide is a godsend to talented athletes and their parents on how to successfully navigate the mine field of college and professional sports.

What's a mom or dad to do when their child excells at a sport far beyond his or her parents' own experience and wildest dreams? Add to that the youthful grandiose beliefs that they are "bulletproof" and you have a recipe for disaster.

Marc Isenberg and Rick Rhoads have performed an extremely important service by providing a clear, easy to read, and easy to use guide for parents who are trying to look out for their athletic child's best interest.

Talented young athletes are like young thoroughbred horses whose gifts need to be harnessed and guided in just the right way, or else they run the risk of being put out to pasture early. The Athletes Guide is just what you need to help your child to be all that he or she can be.

Buy it. Read it. Use it. Tell any parent of a young athlete to do the same.

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Summary: An important book
Review: This book is a must read for all high school students regardless of their athletic aspirations. It is really about dealing with life.

Howard