Sports Training for Babies and Toddlers: Have We Gone too Far?
Monday, December 20, 2010 9:58In an age where parents are looking to advantage their children in an ultra-competitive world, kids are being started earlier and earlier in academics, arts and yes, athletics.
And not even children anymore, but babies and toddlers are getting very early starts in sports-related training.
Enter entrepreneurs like Doreen Bolhuis, founder of “Gymtrix”, a company that offers a library of videos starting with training for babies as young as 6 months. “With the babies in our family,” she said, “I start working them out in the hospital.”
Yikes…