A best book that detailing the flaws in kid’s sports and suggestions for their correction

Frequent exercise is beneficial to your health. We are all aware of this as our screens never stop telling us so.

And one way to stay physically active is through sports. A technique that, for kids, may teach the qualities of collaboration, dedication, how to be gracious in triumph or failure. For these reasons, a lot of parents want their kids to play sports and to be more active and spend less time on their phones.

However, there is a problem with youth sports. The majority of young athletes give up team sports by their teens. Both the competition and the time and money commitments are more fierce than ever (at least for many parents and children). Due to these pressures, children are frequently harmed more often than not by childhood sports.

Linda Flanagan also wants to know how this came about.

The recent book Take Back The Game, with the subtitle “How Money And Mania Are Ruining Kids’ Sports – And Why It Matters,” was written by Flanagan, a veteran coach of children’s running. Although typing that subtitle can be challenging, the book is quite approachable. Furthermore, the subtitle does a good job of summarizing Flanagan’s points without giving away the plot twist that could turn off certain readers. In essence, children are being harmed by their overly protective parents.

This was a lesson Flanagan had to learn the hard way—by doing it herself. She naturally wanted her kids to play athletics because she was a competitive adult distance runner and a former school star. Among them, two showed no interest. Her younger son excelled at basketball and continued to do so. Flanagan was thrilled to observe this and to think that her son was doing well as a result of her strong parental guidance.

up till she put pressure on him to go to a “basketball camp” for young people trying to win scholarships to college. Her son detested it. At first, she didn’t see why—wasn’t it a fantastic opportunity? Isn’t it fair to pay $150 for a DVD compilation of his most impressive on-court moments? “I refuse to return there,” he informed her. “I’m not even close to being as good as those kids, and nobody seemed to care about me.”

“I finally stopped talking and listened here,” According to Flanagan:

I could see clearly now. In a highly competitive high school sport, my kid had excelled. He had grown into an accomplished basketball player. He had become close friends with teenagers he never would have met. And he’d matured into a mature young man, leading the team as captain, helping the coaches in the summer, and strengthening his already strong sense of self-control. It was enjoyable anyway. Wasn’t that the whole point of youth athletics, including high school sports?

It took me years to realize how important my son’s sports career was to me and how much my ego was bolstered by his stellar accomplishments when he did. Furthermore, although it may be comprehensible, the desire for social position is not admirable.

This section, which appears somewhat early in Take Back The Game, really struck a chord with me. It’s nothing like the well-known cliché of the “psycho dad screaming at ump during Little League game.” (Yes, Flanagan has encountered those individuals; my brother did as well; he volunteered as a Little League umpire in high school.) Flanagan is discussing a different topic. Despite having benefited from youth athletics and wanting the same for her children, she managed to extract all the enjoyment from it for her son.