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Hello and welcome back to Oversharing.

I'm Jordan Abraham.

And I am Dr. Naomi Bernstein. How's it going? How was your

week? I missed you. Week was good going coming off of a fun-filled sports weekend. I don't want

this to be too parenting heavy because I know there are lots of listeners that aren't parents.

But I will say, I'm having a bit of an existential, I don't know if I would call it a crisis,

but I feel like I'm way steep in youth sports, which I'm sure some of our listeners, maybe

your age are like just teetering towards like

sucker or these little, you know, but buckle up because there's a whole business in youth sports

and they've dragged all these parents and all these kids into this booming youth sports business. Who's making money of

of this? Like the leagues, the companies that are organizing it? Club sports are making money.

I mean, outside of school. This is like, yes. So there's some of it that gets intense even in like

recreational. Like Brooks is still in recreational what does recreational mean that's like

the town league the like public league okay so like you know rosalind little league or whatever you know

like that's like the rec league then somebody decided that if you come in and you're like, oh, these are the best

kids, they're select. These kids are selected because they're really, really good at the sport.

That's like the club sports. And it just is such like an ego trap because it makes the parents feel like, oh my gosh, my kid is special.

Right. I've got to put them in club sports. I have to encourage this talent that they have, which I think in the beginning, it was kind of like these.

No one ever thought that about me. I got cut from the JV volleyball team.

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