Thursday, October 30, 2008

Youth Sports: Are They Really For The Youth?

There are still plenty of opportunities where parents decide what's best for youth sports and unfortunately, take the wrong direction.

There are places where parents think they are doing the right thing to prepare their children for varsity sports at some later date by creating elite youth programs where they hope their kids will become superstars now. Misguided as they are, they have missed all the documentation about how to create youth programs for the YOUTH-- not the adults. It's sort of like smoking. There is plenty of documentation about the ills of smoking but people still smoke--and even deny there is a problem.

This month I had to speak out again about how much is too much for small kids playing sports.

To read the article, go to: http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/youth+sports