Youth sports, and the people who ruin it.

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I have been on the inside of youth sports for many years, you may be shocked to hear some people’s motives behind their involvement  in their particular sport. I have had parents offer to pay me to put their child on a higher level hockey teams because it served their purpose. When this parent had been holding other kids back for years in order to help friends. Parents have cut kids or dropped them down to a lower levels because they didn’t like the parents, or brought kid up too higher levels (baseball) because he had a good looking mom. Youth sports should be about development. If you see a child playing a cheap brand of hockey, that may be the kid, but when you see an entire team doing this it starts at the top (coach). Parents don’t understand, the small % of players who can even play   a division 1 level  never mind the pro’s. Parents don’t see what the  child is doing but instead they see what their child is capable of doing. Stop living through your children and let them live their own lives, it will all work out for the best. Alot can be learned through kids involvment in sports if the parents would just give them the room to learn.

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