{"id":892,"date":"2017-09-04T19:26:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/?p=892"},"modified":"2017-09-04T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:26:58","slug":"the-snowballing-youth-sports-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"the snowballing youth sports industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several observations on the <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4913687\/how-kids-sports-became-15-billion-industry\/?utm_campaign=time&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;xid=time_socialflow_twitter\">rapidly expanding youth sports industry<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>the privatization of youth sports has increased costs for families, making opportunity less accessible for many<\/li>\n<li>youth sports are increasingly framed as an opportunity mechanism (a means to a scholarship) rather than a social and developmental mechanism (a means for fun and personal growth)<\/li>\n<li>many expectations associated with youth sports are unrealistic (on 2% of high school athletes make D1) and place heightened pressure on kids<\/li>\n<li>the youth sports industry encourages year-round focus on single sports &#8212; nudging other sports and activities out of the picture for many young children. almost all research suggests that early specialization like this is not good.<\/li>\n<li>many of the coaches associated with youth sports lack training\/expertise and have questionable motivations ($$$$) for being involved in youth sports.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several observations on the rapidly expanding youth sports industry:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}