The Adulteration of Children's Sports explores current behavioral
and physiological research about how children's organized sport has
changed; how adults' goals and needs are at the heart of those
changes; and the consequences of those changes on children's
enjoyment of sport and on their autonomy, creativity, and moral
reasoning outside of sport. Adult introduction of early
competition, extrinsic rewards, early sport specialization, and
year-round participation has thwarted children's intrinsic
motivation and contributed to children's attrition from sport.
Kristi Erdal explores concerns about the future of sport itself, as
adult-mediated selection practices whittle down young athletes
earlier on shakier criteria. Parents' and coaches' complicity in
these practices, however, is based on intermediaries poorly
interpreting (or ignoring) the research literature. Thus, the final
chapters of this book are about translating the research into
applied ideas for change. Erdal provides an essential introduction
to evidence-based research about children's health and well-being
in sport and debunks myths along the way. Adults built the problems
compiled in this text. We can dismantle them as well.
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