Six years ago, Rick Wolff began writing Parents’ Guide to Kids’ Sports from the perspective as a parent, coach, former athlete and pro team psychology advisor. Six years ago, there was great interest in the subject of youth sports but now, Wolff claims that the issues are getting more important and more serious. Too many parents and coaches feel that anything goes when it comes to their kids in sports. The thoughts of college athletic scholarships and pro contracts make the stakes higher (R.Wolff “Let’s” 1).

The trend these days is that parents are becoming more confrontational which is directly

The point is that if your child is an excellent athlete with the desire to improve, it doesn’t make a difference if he or she decides to specialize in a sport at an early age or plays several sports along the way. Athletic burnout is also a real concern, and according to most studies, kids who “burn out” usually do so in their teenage years when they should be having the most fun in sports. To them, playing a single sport constantly takes the fun out of the activity and makes it seem like work. And when a sport becomes work, more and more children want to walk away.

Another negative trend that is occurring in youth sports is parents trying to make their child specialize in one sport. Rick Wolff, an expert in youth sports, disagrees with the idea that as soon as young athletes decide which team sport is their one true sport, they should devote themselves to it (“Don’t” 1). The fact is that most kids who are athletic tend to enjoy a number of sports. However, some parents don’t want their kids to joy their multiple sports. They believe that if their children focused on one sport for the whole year, they’ll develop superior skills more quickly. While this theory may make sense, it doesn’t explain why many well-known pros didn’t take this narrow path to success. Some examples:

While I was doing my internship as a coach for the Long Island Pride, I noticed that a lot of the girls couldn’t make it to practice because of other sports. Most of them played soccer, lacrosse or softball alongside basketball. I noticed it was rare for us to have our full team at practice. I asked the coach how he felt about players missing practices and he said as long as they show up to at least 50% of the practices, they would all get equal amounts of playing time. His belief was different from other parents because he thought that these girls should play as many sports as they could because if they were burnt out in one sport, they’d have other sports to fall back on. Some of these girls probably were physically exhausted because they were going to practice after practice after practice but Pete, who was the coach, said if the girls were having fun with what they were doing, fatigu

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