Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) I te wa i reti ai te kaitakaro o Oakland Raiders NFL, a Maurice Jones-Drew, i te 29 noa iho o ona tau, i kii ia kua arotahi tana oranga ki te whutupaoro mo nga tau 24 ana me whakarereke ia. Ehara i te mea maere i hiahia ia ki te puta. Kua tākaro ia i te whutupaoro mai i te 5 o ona tau. He taitamariki rawa koe ki te whakakakahu i te potae? Kāore i te tino pērā. Kāore a Jones-Drew i rerekē i te mano o ētahi atu tama i whakaurua e ō rātou mātua ki te papa tākaro i te mea he tau torutoru noa iho i te tīmatanga o te tākaro. Ko te whutupaoro te hākinakina tino pai o Amerika. E whakapehapeha ana mātou ki tō mātou kaha, ki tō mātou āheinga ki te whakatika anō i a mātou e hinga ana. He aha te hākinakina pai ake hei whakaako i aua akoranga? Engari i ēnei rā, kāore te whutupaoro rangatahi i te āhua he kōwhiringa pai. I te tau 2012, tata ki te 225,287 ngā tamariki -- he hekenga 9.5% mai i te tau 2010 -- i waenganui i ngā tau 5 me te 14 i tākaro i te whutupaoro Pop Warner, i roto i te mea ko te reanga taumaha mō ngā tamariki 5 tau te pakeke mai i te 35 ki te 79 pauna. I te mea e whakataetae ana ngā tama māmā nei ki ngā tamariki e nui ake ana i te rua o to rātau rahi, ehara i te mea whakamiharo te āhua o ngā mātua ki te tuku i a rātau tamariki ki tēnei hākinakina. Engari, kāore i roa kua pahure ake nei, kaore nga matua i whakaaro ki te tuku i a rātau tamariki ki te papa whutupaoro ki te oma haere, ki te wera i te kaha. He tokomaha tonu ngā mātua e kī ana he haumaru te whutupaoro rangatahi. He aha te mea hauora ake mō te tamaiti? He pai ake i te noho ki mua i te rorohiko i te rā katoa. Koina tonu te whakaaro o Debra Pyka i tana hainatanga i tana tama, a Joseph Chernach, mo te whutupaoro Pop Warner i Wisconsin, kātahi i Michigan, i a ia e 11 tau ana, i te tau 1997. Mehemea i mohio ia i taua wā ka mate tana tama i te 25 o ona tau. I whakaekehia a Hohepa i roto i te whare o tona whaea i te Pipiri 7, 2012. I kitea i muri mai he mate CTE kino tona roro, he mate roro whakaheke kua honoa ki nga wiri whutupaoro. I takaro a Joseph Chernach i nga hakinakina, tae atu ki te whawhai, te peke pou me te whutupaoro i te nuinga o tona taiohi. Engari tata ki te whā tau i tākaro ai ia i te whutupaoro Pop Warner mai i te 11 ki te 14 o ōna tau. "Ko taku tama te kaikanikani o te akomanga, i aroha ki te kura, he ngahau tonu ki te noho tahi", ko ta Pyka i korero mai ki ahau. Engari i kite mātou...
Roxanne Jones: He take kei te reti atu ngā kaitākaro NFL rangatahi i te hākinakina. E mea ana ia kāore te whutupaoro rangatahi i te āhua pai rawa mō ngā tamariki; me mōhio ngā mātua ki ngā mōrea.