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Kids and Sports

Learn how playing sports like soccer, golf, basketball, football, and baseball can keep your kids healthy and fit and help them learn valuable life lessons.

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Girls Need Sports Too!

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Have you ever wondered why girls drop out of sports by the truckload once they reach high school? The drop out rate is seven times greater than that of boys.

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A Child's First Sport Puts the Fit in Fitness

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Football, soccer, gymnastics -- no matter the field, all kids can benefit from early exposure to sports.

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When Winning Means Losing

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It starts out so pure. Parents sign their kids up for soccer, basketball or other sports--all for the right reasons--to improve fitness and coordination, learn new skills, build character and have fun. Yet all too often, when the whistle blows and the game begins, a strange phenomenon occurs. "People start to think, 'If you're not a winner, you're a loser,'" says Kevin Daugherty, youth sports specialist for the American Sport Education Program, a Champaign, Illinois-based group that provides resources for coaches and parents. And that's when destructive behavior starts.

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Game Review: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

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Amazing skating game, amazingly bad behavior. For teens.

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Game Review: NBA Street Vol. 3

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EA's latest slam dunk.

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One-Sport Wonders: Should Your Child
Specialize in a Single Sport?

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The child should always take the lead in deciding whether or not to specialize in one sport. "If a child is passionate about one sport, that's fine," says Ron Quinn, associate professor of education at Xavier University and director of sports studies. But a child should not be forced to pick a sport.

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Good Sports: Helping Young
Athletes Keep Fun in the Game

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According to Joel Fish, Ph.D., author of 101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent and director of Philadelphia's Center for Sport Psychology, parents are a determining factor in whether kids enjoy team sports. "If children sense that their parents love them and are proud of them whether they hit the ball or not," says Fish, "then they'll be better equipped to handle all the ups and downs that come with competitive sports."

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How to Catch a Ball

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Tips to help your child get the ball rolling

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