Does Youth Sports Take an Unfair Toll on Kids?

This series of articles in the Columbus Dispatch about youth sports ought to be required reading for anyone who has kids involved in youth sports. The series examines the toll that youth sports can take on student athletes, looks at the history of youth sports in Central Ohio, and offers some fascinating insights. It goes much deeper than the usual story on a crazy parent punching a referee. As a parent and someone that works with kids in sports every day, it has been easy to see that the positives for kids in athletics can be enormous. There can be negatives too, though. This series provides a balanced look at both.

Check it out before it comes off the web.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/special_reports/stories/2010/youth_sports/index.html