Subject: Sidwell 8th grade -- Does Your Child Play Sports? Come Hear Upcoming Speaker Monday, February 9
From: "Mary Kostel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Mary Kostel" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Amy Gleklen" <[email-masked]>, "Elise Goldstein" <[email-masked]>, "Tessa van der Willigen" <[email-masked]>, "Susan Wilder" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 18:22:26 -0500

*Does your child play Sports?  Don’t miss the upcoming speaker at SFS
on Monday, February 9th, 2015*

*“The question isn’t whether we’re emotionally invested in our children
because we are. It isn’t whether we see ourselves in our children because
we do. It’s when that investment becomes so great that what is good for
children is forgotten that real problems happen.**”-Richard
Ginsburg, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at MGH/ Harvard
Medical School, quoted in Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth
Sports and How It Harms Our Kids*

Join Mark Hyman, George Washington University assistant professor and
author of *Until It Hurts*, and a panel of SFS experts for a frank and open
discussion of our youth sports culture. This is an opportunity to take part
in a conversation about the many questions facing families with children in
sports: When is the right time to start my child in an organized league?
How do I keep sports fun for my child when many leagues have become
hyper-competitive? Why are overuse injuries on the rise? What is driving
the "global warming" of youth sports?  Join us on Monday, February 9th at
7pm in the Robert Smith Meeting room.  Light refreshments will be served
and child care is available, RSVP to Kathi Webb [email-masked] if you
would like to use the child care.  *Sponsored by the SFS
Parents Association Athletics Committee.