Anyone who has ever played sports; team or individual, can probably tell you a story about someones parents going overboard during a game/match/event. The video above, if you can make it through it, is an example of all that can be wrong with the parents of young athletes. It’s an old video, but we can learn so much from it and unfortunately is one of MANY just like it. There shouldn’t even be one.

The 2019 State of Play survey from the Aspen Institute teaches us that the average child spends less than three years playing a sport and quits by age 11. The survey connected with parents of youth athletes, finding that the primary reason that kids are quitting sports is because they simply aren’t having fun anymore; which we know is the primary reason that kids play sports.