The rise of club sports prompted me to question the direction youth sports were headed, but when my daughter tore her ACL, I felt an obligation to share what our family learned the hard way about this serious injury. Over the last 20 years injury prevention programs have been developed. But the number of injuries hasn’t come down, and it won’t come down until coaches implement these programs.

A timeout lets you catch your breath and reset, in a game and in life.

Why learning to deal with adversity is the most important lesson of sport

Having a game plan is important. But there’s an even more important secret of life.

Those are words a parent never wants to hear. But fewer will hear it when more parents and coaches of girls learn about ACL tears—and implement programs designed to prevent them.

For some of us, the pandemic pause on full schedules has been a chance to slow down and make different choices—from what we eat and what we wear to how we spend our precious free time. It’s also the perfect time to tune into our kids’ true interests and rethink the activities they’ll return to.

Focusing on what your kids can do right now instead of what they can’t will help them now and in the future.