How Parents Wreck Youth Sports
The title of a research study from the University of Hawaii recently caught my eye. The study title is this: “Frequency of Negative Adult Spectator Behavior at Adolescent Sporting Events.” Any of us who have attended a youth sporting event…
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The Cost of Youth Sports
When we can’t act responsibly, behaving ourselves in ways that don’t risk danger to others and ourselves, outside intervention is needed so that the most vulnerable are protected. For several years now we’ve been talking about the out-of-control idolatry of…
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Soccer and Brain Trauma
Recent research from the Journal of the American Medical Association serves to remind us of our need to be diligent in protecting our kids from experiencing trauma to their brains while playing sports. Using new imaging techniques, researchers at Columbia…
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Obnoxious Parents and Youth Sports
It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to see that there’s been a decline in parental sideline behavior over the course of the last few years. I recently watched a viral video where a referee had to stop a…
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Parent Prompt: Youth Sports & Church Participation
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Download the Parent Prompt here. By: Jason Engle, CPYU Research Fellow and Teaching Pastor at Westwood…
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A Story of Self-Less Teen Sportsmanship
What would you do if you were running the last cross-country race of your high school career and that race was the state championship meet? Now I’m not a cross-country runner, but I imagine that I would be racing to…
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Will Your Kids Go Pro?
According to the Aspen Institute, the youth sports industry here in the United States is a forty billion dollar a year business. About sixty million kids are playing youth sports, with the average family spending just over a thousand dollars…
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