If you want another sign that youth sports (and the parents and coaches that are behind it) have gone completely off the rails, read this truly unsettling article. No doubt that many aspects of youth sports are no longer about children, but rather about deluded and selfish parents and the ‘youth sport industrial complex’ in which children are simply vehicles for coaches, junior programs, and recruiting web sites to make money.
Who can stop this madness? Only the parents who need to provide children with perspective, re-emphasis the true benefits of youth sports (e.g., hard work, resilience, camaraderie, perseverance, etc.), and just plain allow their children to be kids again instead of ‘prospects.’
If you want another sign that youth sports (and the parents and coaches that are behind it) have gone completely off the rails, read this truly unsettling article. No doubt that many aspects of youth sports are no longer about children, but rather about deluded and selfish parents and the ‘youth sport industrial complex’ in which children are simply vehicles for coaches, junior programs, and recruiting web sites to make money.
