Youth Sports

Explore how guided play in games with unstructured teams helps develop a child’s cognitive abilities and foundational life skills. Beyond just fun, purposeful guided play—including trial and error, open-ended exploration, and collaboration—fosters critical thinking, resilience, and problem-solving skills.

Many suggest that younger siblings' greater success in sports is due to learning from older siblings. Explore why the answer may instead be due to their parents' increased knowledge of how to raise children.

What motivates children to want to play sports? How do sports impact a child’s long-term development, and what are the impacts of children no longer wanting to play?

The consensus is that rising injury rates among professionals are driven by overuse and early specialization in youth sports. Explore why the failure to understand the root cause of the problem often leads to solutions that make things even worse.

Despite little theoretical basis or empirical evidence to support this belief, for over 3 decades, the conventional wisdom has been that intense, win-at-all-costs mindsets are driving children out of youth sports. Learn why the root cause of the problem is the failure to understand what makes playing sports fun.