Should Gracie and Johannes Let Their Son Play Football? / Asbjørn Osland, Inae Yang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osland, Asbjorn, author.

Yang, Inae, author.

Series:

SAGE business cases.

SAGE business cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : Society for Case Research, 2025.

Summary:

Parenting is full of hard decisions. Having sports enthusiasts as sons, Gracie and Johannes faced a difficult parenting choice regarding football. Bobbie, the 6-year old, had been enamored with sports since he was a toddler. Bobbie's friends were already talking about flag football, and he had asked if he could play when he reached age seven. Even though it was early, Bobbie knew that he would also be eligible to transition to tackle football at age nine and was looking forward to this milestone as well. The family lived in Louisiana where American football was popular in high school and college. The National Football League (NFL) had covered up and then later acknowledged the prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which shocked the public (Fainaru-Wada & Fainaru, 2013). Since the presence of CTE could only be determined through autopsy, its extent was unknown in high school football players. Nonetheless, the Aspen Institute proposed that children refrain from tackle football until age 14 (Farrey, 2018, September 12). For those that opted to play anyway, safety concerns could be addressed in part through rule changes that avoided dangerous scenarios, such as open field tackling and blocking in the kicking game, protection for vulnerable players (e.g., kickers, receivers, quarterbacks and so forth). Injured players could be kept out until cleared medically. Younger children could play flag football and avoid full contact tackle football until they were older. Gracie found little danger in flag football since it involved no more physical contact than soccer. She knew that youth football coaches emphasized safety, but she worried about Bobbie when he got older. The prevailing local focus on football meant highly athletic boys with an interest in football, such as Bobbie, might be recruited to play tackle football by a school coach. Would Bobbie resent Gracie if she prohibited him from playing tackle football? Would her community understand? There was already a downward trend in high school football participation, perhaps due to safety concerns (Rapp, 2017). When his parents told him "no" regarding an activity he wanted to do, Bobbie would sometimes become angry. He might yell at his parents, try to assert his independence in other ways, or just generally lash out. Since some of his friends already planned on playing flag and then later tackle football, Bobbie probably wouldn't understand why he could not in the event Gracie and Johannes said "no".

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ISBN:

9781071980996

1071980998

OCLC:

1483992839