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Why Youth Sports in America Are in Decline
Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Benefits of Youth Sports
A lot of it goes to travel. It's hotels, it's flights, it's getting your whole family to the second grade AU National Basketball Championships or whatever travel tournament there is that weekend. Parents just keep getting suckered into this idea that if my kids going to advance, then they need to be on the elite team and we have to fork over all this cash. If you want to play quality competition, you don't need to fly three states away. Just play a team that's a year older than your kids. And I also think there's a very primal motivation here, which is that parents are told. But these programs prey upon anxiety by putting your kid in sports that somehow
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