Unhealthy Competition
Young kids are training like professionals, and have the injuries to prove it
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/15/CMG7OOP5OB1.DTL
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It's a sobering story. My family is in that category.
We learned the hard way.
I hope we learned in time for our younger daughters (softball). It's a tough sell, though, to their coaches and teams to suggest that they lay low for at least a couple of months of the year. And then we get labeled as "not dedicated enough"--but when kids are out with injuries, they're not tremendously helpful to the team, either.
It's tough.
Thanks for posting it. I will think about sending it to their coaches. I will if I think it will help.
We learned the hard way.
I hope we learned in time for our younger daughters (softball). It's a tough sell, though, to their coaches and teams to suggest that they lay low for at least a couple of months of the year. And then we get labeled as "not dedicated enough"--but when kids are out with injuries, they're not tremendously helpful to the team, either.
It's tough.
Thanks for posting it. I will think about sending it to their coaches. I will if I think it will help.