Category: Kids Sports and Activities
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My Teenager Wants to Take Peptides: Because Apparently Puberty Needed a Black Market Upgrade
At some point, many parents ask a version of the same question:“ My kid wants to take peptides. Is that safe?” Usually this question follows a highly scientific chain of events: a teenager sees a muscular influencer online, the influencer says “recovery,” “optimization,” or “growth,” and suddenly your child believes a syringe marketed beside a…
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Parents Are Funding Club Sports Like Harvard, But the ROI Looks More Like Community College
Let’s do some math that no parent actually wants to do, but I’m going to do it anyway. Because someone has to. Across the country, families now spend an average of about $1,016 a year just on a child’s primary sport — and that’s the modest number (Aspen Institute Project Play). Once you graduate to…
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Basketball Won’t Make Your Kid Taller(And Gymnastics Won’t Turn Them Into a Hobbit)
Let me tell you how this conversation goes. You bring your seven-year-old in for a well visit, and somewhere between the vaccine talk and the “please stop eating glue” talk, you casually ask: “So if I put him in basketball, will that help him grow taller?” I get this question roughly eleven thousand times a…
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Holding Him Back a Year Won’t Make Him the Next Michael Jordan. It’ll Just Make Him the Biggest Kid in Kindergarten
The Unfiltered Pediatrician’s case against redshirting your five-year-old for the NBA. Let’s address the fantasy currently living rent-free in your head: you are not incubating a future first-round draft pick by holding your son back a year before kindergarten. You are, at best, producing a slightly taller six-year-old who can dunk on a Little Tikes…