Kim Kardashian targets youth sports with Team Moms but heres what shes missing

There’s a movement afoot to tear down youth sports, particularly the more competitive “travel sports” variety — and Kim Kardashian is aiming to amp up the controversy.Next week Kardashian debuts her new docuseries, “Team Moms: Baseball,” giving the reality-show treatment to mothers of young athletes at the Legendary Preps Academy in Scottsdale, Ariz.Sneak-preview ads show the overly-made-up moms and dads oozing unrealistic ambition for their boys while scheming to sabotage each other.That follows New York magazine’s summer cover story about the pressures of kids’ sports, the Wall Street Journal’s report on their rising costs, and The Post’s own coverage of just how pricey and difficult “club” sports have become.The Journal’s piece, as is typical, ran down a litany of the insane costs to “survive another year of Little League” nowadays — tallying everything from “sleek composite bats that cost up to $450” and “the coolest sunglasses” to “gloves, helmets, elbow guards, leg protectors, arm sleeves, sliding mitts” and many, many more supposed necessities.“Also, headbands.Do kids really need a headband if they are always wearing a hat or helmet? Don’t be ridiculous.

Of course they do.”No, no they don’t.What stressed-out parents seem to be missing is this: You don’t have to fall for all that.Our youngest son was 3 or so when we faced a strange reality: We had an athlete.He was our third child and the first one of these: The ball would go exactly where he wanted it to; he’d outrun everyone.The rest of his uncoordinated family watched in awe.By the time he was 5, he was playing flag football and soccer and, despite being small for his age, scoring most of the touchdowns and goals for his teams.So we found him more competitive outlets for his sports — recreation leagues when they fit, travel leagues when they didn’t.At 10, he now plays a combination of competitive rec and travel sports.No fancy shoes or headbands; ...