Argumentative Sports Source Analysis

Parents constantly debate on whether or nor their children should be involved in highly competitive sports that have many detrimental risks. Playing sports can mentally, socially, and physically harm children at a young age. These impacts can then later on effect their life. To begin with, putting children in competitive sports at a young age affects them emotionally. The writer of source two states, “too much stress can leave young kids burnt out.” This is important because if you keep pushing children they will get stressed out and not want to do sports anymore, or even focus on school because of the amount of stress brought on them. The author then says that sports “hinder development of important skills like decision making and problem solving.” The author is trying to show that sports can prevent you from important mental skills. The competitiveness of sports is unhealthy for brains that still developing.

The writer of article two argues that, “young children’s self-esteem can also be affected.” This supports the idea that if a child loses or does poor in a game or practice, they will no longer have any self confidence. The child will then block people out, like friends and family, because they feel they aren’t good enough. This can lead to bottled up emotions that end in tantrums and inappropriate behavior. The author of source one implies that sports help cope with fear. However, The reality is that the competition within organized sports actually produces fear; which then leads to insecurity. The writer of source two says children who do sports, “experience feelings of frustration and failure.” This shows that sports can make children upset and cause them to act out; leading to children losing friends because of their behavior. Sports can easily affect a child’s social life then, and for the rest of their