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Youth Sports and Intensive Parenting: Travel Soccer Confessions

Youth Sports and Intensive Parenting: Travel Soccer Confessions

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Emily Edlynn
Aug 08, 2023
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Have you noticed? Youth sports has been swept up in the intensive parenting tsunami, becoming yet another symbol of our status and success as parents while wreaking destruction on family life, family budgets, and even the love of the game. I have gone on record in my piece, Youth Sports in Overdrive, that youth sports has ballooned from a character-buil…

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