{"id":11994,"date":"2015-01-18T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2015-01-18T06:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:23:30","slug":"parents-are-spending-increasing-amounts-on-sports-coaching-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/parents-are-spending-increasing-amounts-on-sports-coaching-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Are Spending Increasing Amounts On Sports Coaching For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/011815_1119_ParentsAreS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Sullivan wrote about the investments that parents are making in the hopes of not having to pay for college:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The amount of money that parents are paying to provide sports coaching to their kids has grown to 10.5% of gross income.<\/li>\n<li>Some see this as an investment \u2013 if a child gets a sports scholarship then the parents won&#8217;t have to pay for college.<\/li>\n<li>Parents will thus pay coaches up to $400 an hour to make their children better sportspeople.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;ll also take them to camps across the country.<\/li>\n<li>The chances of a child getting a sports scholarship is so small though that the expected return on investment doesn&#8217;t justify the amounts spent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read what parents should really be spending money on, the problem of emotionally immature tutors, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/17\/your-money\/rising-costs-of-youth-sports.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/17\/your-money\/rising-costs-of-youth-sports.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Sullivan wrote about the investments that parents are making in the hopes of not having to pay for college: The amount of money that parents are paying to provide sports coaching to their kids has grown to 10.5% of gross income. Some see this as an investment \u2013 if a child gets a sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/011815_1119_ParentsAreS1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11997,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions\/11997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}