Youth sports has an attrition problem. "We do a tremendous job at getting kids involved," sport scientist Amanda Visek says. "We do a terrible job at keeping them." The absence of "fun" is often cited ...

Ms. Bennett is a contributing editor in Opinion who writes on gender, politics and culture. I did something called survival camp as a teenager, an entirely voluntary activity, ostensibly for fun.

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun, about why it can be so difficult for adults to have fun and how people can find ways to incorporate fun into their life.