How do you raise healthy and responsible children in our irresponsible world? With 43 million children playing Little League sports, there exists a powerful opportunity to use sports as a mentor rather than a sitter, giving children the work ethos that is lacking, the physicality that lies dormant, and the ability to do difficult things as a child so that the challenges of life do not overwhelm them. [Coaching Young Couch Potatoes] offers practical advice to inexperienced coaches and youth leaders on how to give young people what they need to reach their full potential.