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  1. Sep 2019
    1. Bennett and his coaching staff were questioned by parents about something after every game.

      These parents believe that they do everything they can to make their children good at sports. So when the children do not do good, they need someone to blame so they go to the coach and blame them for what they may think of as bad coaching or training.

    1. “Intense and repetitive training can lead to pediatric trauma and may require surgery to young shoulders, knees, elbows and wrists,” the orthopedic surgeons’ organization reported.

      Sports are always looked at as something that will help to keep one in shape. No one ever talks about the mental and physical damage that sports can cause a child. Parents want their kids to be excellent at these sports they do not pay attention to the pain it causes them.

    2. “Sadly, what parents want and what parents hope to gain from their children’s participation in youth sports is often at a significant extreme to what the kids actually want.”

      Parents put their children in sports in hopes that they will become better at it and maybe get a scholarship for college through sports. But children do not usually play a sport with the mindset that it will help them in the long run, they play because they enjoy doing it.