{"id":5853,"date":"2014-06-11T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2014-06-11T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:46:20","slug":"early-sports-specialization-hurts-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/early-sports-specialization-hurts-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Sports Specialization Hurts Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/11\/opinion\/sports-should-be-childs-play.html?_r=0\">eye-opening\u00a0article<\/a> smashing the myth that early specialization in sports gives children\u00a0a leg up in later athletic success. In fact, the research shows otherwise. Plus, early specialization in a sport results in increased injuries.<\/p>\n<p>These findings should be a wake-up call to parents who attempt to rush their children toward specializing in one sport in the mistaken belief that it is good for them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Capture1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Capture1.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"339\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0eye-opening\u00a0article smashing the myth that early specialization in sports gives children\u00a0a leg up in later athletic success. In fact, the research shows otherwise. Plus, early specialization in a sport results in increased injuries. These findings should be a wake-up call to parents who attempt to rush their children toward specializing in one sport in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517],"tags":[598,782,40,783,61,784,140],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-athletic-development","tag-athletic-success","tag-child-development","tag-physical-development","tag-sports-2","tag-sports-skills","tag-youth-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","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=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}