My son’s travel team coach wants the team to wear their jerseys to school. Is this appropriate?
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Why Can’t My Child Be Team Captain?
My ten-year-old daughter does not understand why she hasn’t been named team captain in the past four seasons.
The Double Edge of Play
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.
How to Avoid Creating Entitlement Monsters—Bullying, Trash Talk, Elitism, and Other Assorted Sports Ills
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.
Is It Harmful for My Child to See So Much Sports Violence on Television?
What can I do about the alarming things my kids see while watching sports on television? The brutal one-on-one fights in NHL games. The baseball brawls. All the taunting and bad sportsmanship on display.
Fixing The American Athlete Podcast
The only way to change the youth sports paradigm in America is to influence coaches, parents and kids. They are the key stakeholders—if you’ll forgive the corporate speak.
Why Is My Young Athlete Always Bored?
At home my son Noah used to be able to find stuff to do to keep himself occupied, but since he’s been playing a lot of sports he gets bored so easily.
Is There Value to Free Play?
My gut tells me that unstructured and semistructured play is an important part of my kid’s growing up. The years go by so quickly!
Are Youth Sports a Societal Panacea? | Huff Post
Many concerned parents have turned to youth sports as a panacea for inactivity, obesity, babysitting or scheduling woes or just to get kids away from screens and digital devices.
A Team Pulls Together
The bottom line: These girls had missed the game-playing stage of play development because of their intense involvement in youth sports from an early age.