{"id":12912,"date":"2018-01-02T09:58:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=12912"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:07:11","slug":"interview-raising-young-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/interview-raising-young-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Raising Young Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thetravelballdad\/videos\/428901337527513\/\">recently interviewed<\/a> by John Bennett, &#8220;The Travel Ball Dad,&#8221; on a variety of issues and concerns related to raising young athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The interview explores how parents can best support their children in their sports participation, the challenges created by the &#8220;youth sport industrial complex,&#8221; and questions and answers about when young athletes should specialize.<\/p>\n<p>For any sport parent who wants to do their best for their young athletes (which means all of us!), it&#8217;s a good listen (if I do say so myself).<\/p>\n<p>And all my best in 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently interviewed by John Bennett, &#8220;The Travel Ball Dad,&#8221; on a variety of issues and concerns related to raising young athletes. The interview explores how parents can best support their children in their sports participation, the challenges created by the &#8220;youth sport industrial complex,&#8221; and questions and answers about when young athletes should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517],"tags":[40,394,1170,155,140],"class_list":["post-12912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-child-development","tag-mental-training","tag-sport-parenting","tag-sport-psychology","tag-youth-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18965,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912\/revisions\/18965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}