My son wants to play quarterback on his town youth football team. The coach’s son also covets the position. Some of the dads say my son should forget about playing quarterback if he wants to be on the team.
My son’s travel team coach wants the team to wear their jerseys to school. Is this appropriate?
My ten-year-old daughter does not understand why she hasn’t been named team captain in the past four seasons.
Play is critical to a well-balanced childhood, and in our technological age, when the time and space to play are shrinking dramatically both at school and at home, there is, thankfully, a growing awareness of its role in a child’s development.
Do sports have to be this way? We want our kids to become more human as they grow older, not less. We want them to discover their own humanity during social interactions, through activities like sports.
My son wants to play quarterback on his town youth football team. The coach’s son also covets the position. Some of the dads say my son should forget about playing quarterback if he wants to be on the team.
My son’s travel team coach wants the team to wear their jerseys to school. Is this appropriate?
My ten-year-old daughter does not understand why she hasn’t been named team captain in the past four seasons.
Play is critical to a well-balanced childhood, and in our technological age, when the time and space to play are shrinking dramatically both at school and at home, there is, thankfully, a growing awareness of its role in a child’s development.
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