How to get a child to stick to a sport

[Anonymous]

Timely column in the Wa Po today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/06/01/why-70-percent-of-kids-quit-sports-by-age-13/

[Anonymous]

I read somewhere how they interviewed former DIV 1 athletes when asked what the least favorite part about their earlier years playing sports and majority of them replied the drive home after games where the parents would talk non-stop about the games and instead just wanted to go back being a kid.