Practices, games, and gear consume the family calendar and budget. Created by organised sport: weekends belong to the league.
This is a tolerated. A problem people have quietly learned to live around. The most interesting category, because tolerance means nobody has solved it well enough to be noticed. It is felt by the parent, continuously, and rates 3 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Scarce time and Scarce resources.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Youth sports leagues — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Youth sports equipment and Shared calendar apps
Its neighbourhood
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionPractices, games, and gear consume the family calendar and budget
- SolutionYouth sports leagues
- FrictionThe child must play, and cannot be left to do it alone
- Life phaseChildhood
- Rooted inBelonging
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inScarce time
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.