Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Youth Sports Are Out of Control
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak, and Jamilah share their parenting triumphs and fails. Then Zak talks with journalist and former coach, Linda Flanagan about her book Take Back the Game. They discuss the transformation of kids sports into the ultra competitive, time consuming juggernaut it is today. They also talk about the culture of cruel coaching and what signals parents are sending to their kids when they dedicate a significant number weeknights and weekends to kids sports.
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| 0:35.5 | Slates Parenting Podcasts for Thursday, November 3rd. The youth sports are out of control |
| 0:40.8 | edition. I'm Elizabeth Newcamp, I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch |
| 0:45.1 | Goose, I'm the mom to three little's Henry Huss 10, Oliver Huss 8 and Teddy Huss 6. We |
| 0:49.7 | live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Zach Rosen, I make a podcast called The Best |
| 0:54.5 | Advice Show and I have two kids. My oldest Noah is five and my youngest Ami is two. We |
| 0:59.9 | live in Detroit. I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slates |
| 1:05.1 | Care and Beating Parenting column and mom to Naima who is nine and a half and we live in Los |
| 1:09.9 | Angeles. Today on the show we're going to be talking about sports. Zach speaks with |
| 1:15.0 | author Linda Flanagan about her book Take Back the Game, which is all about how kids sports |
| 1:20.1 | have been transformed into a high commitment, all-consuming, ultra competitive space and |
| 1:25.2 | what big money has to do with it. Then on Slate Plus we're talking about controversial |
| 1:29.5 | people who have the power to influence our children's lives. You can sign up by going |
| 1:33.8 | to Slate.com slash mom and dad plus. Again, that's Slate.com slash mom and dad plus. Okay, |
| 1:39.1 | we're going to catch up on our weekend parenting but not before a quick break. See you back |
| 1:42.4 | here in a second. |
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