{"id":2259,"date":"2013-07-23T19:54:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com\/blog\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2021-02-09T22:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:48:18","slug":"why-do-kids-quit-sports-five-ways-to-keep-them-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahblog.activityhero.com\/why-do-kids-quit-sports-five-ways-to-keep-them-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Kids Quit Sports? Five Ways To Keep Them Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If sports are so beneficial, why are kids quitting? The top reasons kids give for quitting are losing interest (#1) and not having fun (#2).\u00a0 Other common reasons are because sports take too much time (#3) and they want a non-sport activity (#6) or need more time for studying (#8) and because there was too much pressure (#5) or an over-emphasis on winning (#11).\u00a0 In other words, more kids would stay involved if they could balance sports with other interests, have fun while playing and play for the love of the game, with less pressure and less emphasis on the outcome.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2260\" alt=\"4506903_s\" src="\&quot;https:\/\/www.activityhero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/4506903_s.jpg\&quot;" width=\"400\" height=\"151\" title=\"\" srcset="\&quot;https:\/\/ahblog.activityhero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/4506903_s.jpg" 400w, https:\ \ ahblog.activityhero.com\ wp-content\ uploads\ 2013\ 07\ 4506903_s-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \ /><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of this article on TeamSnap&#8217;s\u00a0blog here:<\/p>\n<p><a href="\&quot;http:\/\/blog.teamsnap.com\/sports-parents-2\/five-ways-to-keep-kids-playing-sports\/\&quot;" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.teamsnap.com\/sports-parents-2\/five-ways-to-keep-kids-playing-sports\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Ann DeWitt for <a href="\&quot;http:\/\/www.teamsnap.com\&quot;" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TeamSnap<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If sports are so beneficial, why are kids quitting? The top reasons kids give for quitting are losing interest (#1) and not having fun (#2).\u00a0 Other common reasons are because sports take too much time (#3) and they want a non-sport activity (#6) or need more time for studying (#8) and because there was too [&hellip;]<\/p&gt;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-cover.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sponsored-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9429,"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/9429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activityhero.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}