Why are sports important for our youth? Is it to become rich someday? To be the best athlete? To always win? Or is it to learn life lessons, to build character, to compete, to grow and get better with the process? Or what about just having fun! Parents put pressure, live through the lives of their children, criticize coaches and officials, even their own children and make sports about money and winning and personal appearance of how it reflects on themselves. It ruins sports, it causes lifelong damages, and it leads to athletes resenting and quitting games they once loved!