E3. Taking Back the Game, with author Linda Flanagan
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Conversation with parent, coach and author Linda Flanagan and her recent book Take Back the Game - How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports - And Why It Matters.
Her perspective as parent and coach resonated with us - what's supposed to be fun can be all too stressful, too. She talks with us not only about the pressures and issues that brought us here, but what we as parents can do about it!
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1. E3. Taking Back the Game, with author Linda Flanagan (00:00:00)
2. Why this book...can a parent care too much? (00:01:50)
3. The hijacking of youth sports and loss of perspective (00:04:13)
4. Sports tourism: heads in beds and who's left out (00:07:19)
5. Sitting is the new smoking - kids & recess (00:10:20)
6. Is all the money we spend worth it? (00:12:30)
7. Our obsession with achievement & visible success (00:15:21)
8. Athletic identity foreclosure (00:22:37)
9. From our employees to our bosses (00:27:17)
10. Solutions (and snack creep!) (00:31:20)
11. Why access to sports matters (00:36:00)
12. Sports for all - do we need a ministry of sports? (00:39:05)
13. Changing the culture & the agency of parents (00:43:00)
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