so how does a family strike a balance? dan gould is the director of michigan state university s institute for the study of youth sports. he s joining us now from east lansing, michigan. okay, so dan, good to see you. a family, you know, may need to strike that balance between wanting the best for their kid, the athlete versus the best for your kid developer child. how do you do that? i think that s a great question. because on the one side of the equation, we know that kids are more likely to engage in sports if their parents are involved and active. so we want parental involvement in sports, just like we want in school and other things. but there s also attendcy now that we see children s sports sort of have different goals. usually more education, developmental goals in a league sport. and sort of we see a lot more pressure being placed on kids. and you know, adult sport models