Tyler talks about putting your kids in competitive sports. Is it necessary? Do parents have their kids best interests in mind? What are the physical and mental repercussions of playing competitive sports? Should there be physical contact in sports? Tyler uses his experience playing high-level hockey and 13 years as a referee to discuss the benefits and negatives of playing sports and the consequences for young children. Will you put your kids in competitive sports? Let me know! Transcript (Unedited) Hello everyone is taught or bride. I’m here today on July 60, 2018 were coming off a long weekend here in Canada at one I think world-wide set serious heat temperatures man, or people dying. We’ve got people in Montreal, Uncle back a 200 people die in the last week from dehydration from overheat and that’s a really scary thing. No, that’s not what I’m talking about today. I don’t have too much to say about that, but a… it’s hot, I got this skin coming off my body still. I’m still trying to get rid of some of this red stuff. Hope you value. Had a great weekend. What I actually want to talk about today is something that I think is becoming more of a discussion and that is putting your kids in competitive sports. And just to provide a little bit of context around this, I just wanted to give a couple of stats. And this is looking at in North America, the United States, 75 percent of families have at least one child that participate in organized sports while in Canada, 764 of youth participate 76 percent of youth participate in an extra-correctly. Or sport? Now the new one I want to make here today, is there is a big difference between organized sports, and then competitive sports, and I would say that there’s almost a level of over-looking at ultra-competitive. And so, to give you a little bit, I’m gonna look at the lens of hockey today ’cause that’s my experience. I played a lot of sports, but hockey was definitely the biggest route I took in competitive sports have a lot of friends who made it very far, some people that I played with who are high-level professional athletes, so I really… what I believe is a pretty good perspective of how hockey plays out but also sports in general. And to provide that nut before people attack me for her saying, “I don’t think you should put your kids in sports. And that’s not really what the argument, I’m gonna say but I do want to look at some of the benefits, but also the negatives, both through personal experience, but also statistically through research and what we’re seeing as we start to understand more about the science of sports and also, even psychology, or involved with it now or if you’re in any area by around Ontario in Canada, and probably the sort of same system reflect really worldwide is that there are multiple levels of competitiveness. And so, in hockey, we have what we usually call a league called House Lee. This is where, this is where the players who are playing really at all competitively usually the low-skilled players, they end up sort of all the players who can’t make the higher leagues get thrown down into this house league level. A lot of times, especially in hockey this level doesn’t have any physical contact it’s much more about an extra activity to do after hockey. Or after school playing some fun with friends and maybe get in a little bit more competitive towards playoffs, and as the season wraps up, but that level intensity that level of competition thing amount of dedication and time it takes to actually do that is very low as we move up. We’d say, sort of, there’s a mid-tier mid-tier level, so there’s house trying to think of what this would actually be called. It’s sort of just mid-mid-tier. You&#82