Why Kids Burn Out on Youth Sports
I recently read some interesting and even concerning data regarding kids and sports from Project Play at the Aspen Institute. According to a 2019 survey, the average child today spends less than three years playing a sport, then quits at…
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Are We Spending Too Much on Kids’ Sports?
According to the latest research, it’s not just time that we’re spending so that at our kids can play organized sports. We’re also spending money. . . lots of money! Researchers have found that the average annual family spending on…
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CTE and Youth Football
Last month was CTE awareness month. If you’ve been tracking with us here on Youth Culture Today for any amount of time, you know that CTE stands for Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy a progressive brain condition caused by repeated blows to…
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Transgenderism and Athletes
Have you noticed how more and more stories are popping up regarding communities and school districts trying to navigate the issue of transgender athletes? Recently, one of the biggest stories has centered on a transgender female swimmer at the University…
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No More Bullpen
Last month, as baseball’s world series was unfolding, the folks at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a campaign to change the long-standing name of baseball’s bull-pen to the arm-pen. They’re reasoning, the name bull-pen is insensitive to…
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The Latest on Kids, Football, and Concussions
Over the course of the last few years I’ve been working to follow the latest research on the fallout from those blows to the brain known as concussions. I’ve found the work of the Concussion Legacy Foundation to be particularly…
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