Teens Drop Sports
A recent blog post from Connect with Kids, talks about how students are dropping out of organized sports at age 13.
A few highlighgts from the post:
- According to the National Alliance for Youth Sports, 73 percent of kids drop organized sports by age 13.
- They practiced every day and had games every weekend. In the end they had little time for anything else. Dr. Richard Winer, a psychiatrist in metro-Atlanta says, "The pressure really becomes too much, and after a while they really become disillusioned with the entire sports scene, and get tired of it and finally say, 'That's it for me.'"
So what should you do if your child wants to quit the team? Dr. Winer says, "One of the things that you might want to look at is a different sport. Sometimes kids just get burned out on one sport."
Laura says, "If it wasn't as much of a time commitment it would still be really awesome if you could do some sort of recreational league, if it was an hour a week, or one game per week or something."
I wonder if there are some things we can learn about why teens are dropping out of church as well?
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posted by: Joe Ball on January 19th, 2010
