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When Sports stop being fun for kids

When Sports stop being fun for kids. Presented By: Alex Doiron , Tyler Ritcey -Conrad and Aaron McDonald. Parental Influence on Kids. 30 million boys and girls under the age of 18 that play some kind of organized sport. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-Xg8CjqKg. Parental Influence on Kids.

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When Sports stop being fun for kids

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  1. When Sports stop being fun for kids Presented By: Alex Doiron, Tyler Ritcey-Conrad and Aaron McDonald

  2. Parental Influence on Kids • 30 million boys and girls under the age of 18 that play some kind of organized sport. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-Xg8CjqKg

  3. Parental Influence on Kids • Study by Harvard Sociologist: Hilary Levey Friedman. • Compared eight sporting activities • Swimming • Football • Baseball • Basketball • Soccer • Hockey • Child beauty pageants • Academic competition

  4. Parental Influence on Kids Why?

  5. Starting Young • Parents see sports as a career/job opportunity • Darcy Tucker “Today it seems like everyone has a summer hockey team, or they’re training all year. When I was growing up, hockey ended on the last day of the season. You put away your skates and equipment and then you started swimming, or playing baseball or soccer”

  6. Starting Young • Early Specialization • CHL often has players aged 15 playing in the league • EPL has seen 17 year olds, 16 year olds, and even 15 year olds EPL has a youth league

  7. Starting Young • Gymnastic video from Sport Psychology • Psychological problems from moving away to play • Physical problems from starting high pace sports as young players

  8. Kids and Injuries • More appointments to pediatricians from young overworking kids. • So many young baseball pitchers. • Swimmers with messed shoulders. • Parents just ignore cries for help by kids • “Oh, it’s just a… … play through the pain.” • Serious injury for kids leads to things like arthritis at much earlier ages than typical.

  9. Kids and Injuries • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P78cK2qBRg (23s-2min15s)

  10. Kids and Injuries • “We always hear about the obesity epidemic,” says pediatrician Joel Brenner. “Yet, on the other end of the spectrum, there’s definitely a group of kids who are too active.”

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