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October 31, 2008

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Kids are beginning formal sports at younger and younger ages with parents pushing harder and harder for that scholarship their children may earn someday.Are parents pushing sports too hard? Meridia price, Baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. is the author of Parenting Young Athletes the Ripken Way. Ripken worries that youth sports are "a highly pressurized environment," created in part by parents who want to live vicariously through their kids. The pressure comes from a parent pushing too hard, trying to make a star out of them or putting too much emphasis on winning.

Ripken believes "before kids really learn how to play, they need to experience the good and the bad, discount meridia, sometimes the positive, sometimes the negative, a little adversity, and they need to learn the game, and they should be allowed to make mistakes. When you emphasize winning, Montana MT Mont., those mistakes really aren't allowed."

There is such a seriousness about sports, says Ripken, that kids are playing just one sport all year-round at an early age, which can lead to physical and/or mental burnout. "Kids need the opportunity to have fun; they need the opportunity to explore and play the game."

Ripken wants parents to "maybe rethink how we support our kids because the power is in the coaches and the parents." He encourages parents to stay on the sidelines to watch and allow the game to unfold to the kids so they can truly enjoy the sport. Says Ripken, parents should "just act like we are almost invisible, but support the right way by putting our arms around the kids when they need it and kind of encouraging them in a small way."

"Ultimately, West Virginia WV W.Va., parents should let kids play the game, it's their childhood."

Are you pushing your kids too hard?

Read more about The New Breed of Athletes in Bringing up Beckham: Raising athletic kids.

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