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Five burning questions to help you and your kid 'survive' youth sports

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What are they getting out of it? How much should we push them? Why don't they want to be on a team?

We find common ground on familiar issues.

NEWPORT, R. I. - Is it what your kid wants or is it what you want?

It’s a question perhaps we don’t ask ourselves enough regarding our sons' and daughters' sports. One takeaway from my discussion about “Surviving Youth Sports” with parents at St. Michael’s Country Day School last week was that we all can get worried about the circumstances surrounding their sports experiences.

What is my son or daughter getting out of it? Why aren’t they playing a certain position more? Why doesn’t he or she want to play a team sport, or on a particular team?

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