{"id":90171,"date":"2024-01-06T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90171"},"modified":"2024-01-06T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T15:32:04","slug":"resisting-the-youth-sports-industrial-complex-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/01\/06\/resisting-the-youth-sports-industrial-complex-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting the Youth Sports Industrial Complex [Last]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/resisting-youth-sports-industrial-complex-book-review-take-back-the-game-flanagan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Resisting the Youth Sports Industrial Complex<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from educationnext.org by Jonathan V. Last; via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/top-20-education-next-articles-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2023<\/a> from educationnext.org<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Children\u2019s sports are corrupted, but parents don\u2019t have to play along<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/resisting-youth-sports-industrial-complex-book-review-take-back-the-game-flanagan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.educationnext.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ednext_XXIII_3_book_last_img01.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Excerpt (emphasis by DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That\u2019s the point of Linda Flanagan\u2019s\u00a0<em>Take Back the Game<\/em>,\u00a0a book about the corruption of youth sports. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">It should be required reading for every parent.<\/span><\/strong> It should be handed out in the hospital along with\u00a0What to Expect the First Year\u00a0and\u00a0Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Flanagan, a journalist and former running coach, has pulled off a rare trick: she diagnoses a societal sickness, traces the roots of the malady, and prescribes a cure.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The problem is that we have a Youth Sports Industrial Complex that forces kids into single-sport specialization before they hit middle school. It demands that children be involved in (expensive) club and travel sports programs starting in elementary school.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Her first dictum is to delay entry into organized sports as long as possible. Don\u2019t sign them up for pee-wee soccer to get a jump on the club scene\u2014send them out into the yard to kick the ball around. Have a catch with them. Shoot baskets. Let them tumble and do cartwheels in the grass. As Flanagan says, \u201cJust let them play.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAnother key precept from Flanagan: The family is more important than kids\u2019 sports.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPerhaps the most valuable lesson from\u00a0<em>Take Back the Game\u00a0<\/em>is that parents have agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resisting the Youth Sports Industrial Complex &#8212; from educationnext.org by Jonathan V. Last; via the The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2023 from educationnext.org Children\u2019s sports are corrupted, but parents don\u2019t have to play along Excerpt (emphasis by DSC): That\u2019s the point of Linda Flanagan\u2019s\u00a0Take Back the Game,\u00a0a book about the corruption of youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,306,199,560,436,248,480,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-parents-guardians","category-reinvent","category-relationships","category-society","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90174,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90171\/revisions\/90174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}