Youth sports can be fun, build character and improve fitness. But they can also cause injuries, social anxiety and mental health problems. Author Linda Flanagan discusses what parents can do to ...

For a lot of kids of all ages, sports are not working for them. Less than half of kids play sports at all, and those that do only stick with it for about three years and quit by age 11.That's a ...

When he threw their kids into sports — basketball, soccer, tennis, gymnastics, lacrosse, one tried football — Thomas realized much of the carefree nature of his childhood games was gone.

Todd Frazier was the MVP of the 1998 Little League World Series and played 11 seasons in MLB. Now he's a youth sports dad ...

The postgame handshake line in kids' sports can bring out some bad behavior. But the Olympics reminded us how important it is to salute your opponent.

About 70% of American kids who turned 18 by 2015-16 said they took part in some sort of organized youth sports, up from slightly more than half of those born in the 1950s, researchers said.

The record low number of kids’ sports injuries in 2020 coincided with Covid-19 lockdown policies. The injuries rose again by 20% in 2021, 12% in 2022 and 2% in 2023, according to the National ...

As parents, our instinct is to protect and insulate kids in times of uncertainty. But sometimes this is impossible due to playground bullies, stress at home caused by sudden layoffs, cutthroat ...

The kids didn't seem to miss it, and I sure didn't miss rushing them home from school to get dressed just to race to the studio and then stay up all night doing homework.We did that routine three ...

I sign our kids up for every bus route or carpool or classmate way of getting to and from events. I come to maybe 25 percent of each of their events because that’s what works.