When I go to a gymnastics meet and do really good, so I get that 1st place medal or trophy. It feels amazing, I mean the sport gymnastics is competitive and I sure do love competitive sports. The competitiveness gets you that rush of excitement. You feel nervous, but excited to get in there and try your hardest. Kids make better choices and have committed when they have the drawbacks of participating in competitive youth sports. Playing competitive sports affect young people in a good way. They are good because you have that commitment and now its hard to back down. In the "no" section of 'Have Youth Sports Become Too Intense?", it states "Intense training promotes self-confidence, self-discipline, and commitment." Student athletes can agree with all of this because it teaches discipline and a lot of other things. Parents can disagree with my reason, because they don't want their child to go through with intense training. They think it's way too much for the child. The benefits of playing competitive sports include self-discipline, control, and confidence. Also not doing drugs, alcohol, and sexual activity. Students who are intensely involved in sports are less likely to abuse drugs or alcohol or join gangs, have a later onset of sexual activity, and do better in school and form good peer relationships. Parents have a …show more content…
Now we have advanced protective gear that protects are head all the way to our toes. Helmets that football players use now protect even better, they protect the child from concussion and from permanent head damage. The sport can keep the child healthy and advance their brain to think more. The child will be more athletic than ever if they do a sport. Most sports are active and do conditioning, which keeps the child healthy. If the child decides to do a non-athletic sport, like chess, they are using their brain and getting it pumping with brain
In conclusion, young athletes should play sports because, youth sports can be a learning experience or it can be a health risk to the athletes. Three main points are how sports keep you healthy, how they build character, and the values that they will learn from sports and how they will use in the future. Even though there is many health risk involved the coaches and parents are doing the best
Jessica Statsky makes great points throughout her article, “Children Need to Play, Not Compete.” She shows the physical and psychological harms that organized sports can cause to growing children under the age of thirteen. She backs up her ideas with a lot of support and many reliable sources. One may find it easy to agree with Jessica because she took an adamant stand on her subject and because of the amount of support that she shows. One may also like how Statsky backed off of her subject in paragraph 9 to relate to the other side of the argument.
I agree with the point that the focus of sports has shifted just to winning the game as the world has turned into a big rat race where everyone is trying to bring the others down. These types of sports should not be a part of children’s life. They have a hazardous effect on the development of a child’s body and personality. Due to the demanding nature, the children are affected mentally and physically. Their bodies are not developed to take this much of pressure. Jessica puts it rightly when she says that the inability to perform physically leads the children to develop mental health
There have always been debates on whether children should play sports. Multiple views have been presented and several facts proposed. People argue that sports build good character, teach life lessons and keep children in shape mentally and physically. Every child deserves to have a way to build character and acquire life lessons while they are still young because these are essential to being a child. Sports present the building blocks of numerous assets that could be used in their everyday life and in the sports world.
In conclusion participating in youth sports can make a very positive influence and life teaching experience in a child’s life. In the right environment, it helps children build competence, instill confidence, create connections, and defines character. John Wooden, a legendary UCLA basketball coach says it best. “Sports do not build character, they reveal it.”
youth sports [were] the one haven for good sportsmanship," says Darrell Burnett, a clinical child psychologist and youth sports psychologist. "Not anymore. It's not just a game anymore." With technology (etc) distracting our children with violence and so on, we cannot afford to ruin what sports may do for them. With sports being just one of the few things left that can contribute to success in life, education, and health, parents need not to put any sort of unnecessary pressure on their kids at such a young age, or any age for that matter, ever.
One key benefit of sports is the impact it has on your body. It is clear that staying active is an essential aspect of living a healthy lifestyle, no matter whether you are a kid or an adult. In organized sports teams have practices and games all of the time, which ensures that kids are spending ample time exercising outside. Youth Sports don’t only affect your life as a child, but as an adult as well. According to Sports and Development.org kids who play sports through their childhood usually continue their activity through the course of adulthood (Morgan). Continuing activity from a youth to an adult also helps to lessen the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and may help maintain a better functioning heart, and lungs. The second key benefit of sports is the social aspect. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services kids who participate in sports have a lower likelihood of becoming involved with drugs and smoking. This department also claimed that girls who participate in sports have a lower chance of becoming pregnant when they reach high school. Although these statistics speak volumes on their own, perhaps one of the
Sports are a great way to teach leadership at a young age. Senior athletes learn to be leaders which is imperative for future job opportunities. Athletes become positive mentors to each other and learn how to work with one another with respect. Sports also help you develop a successful mindset. Sports have been proven to improve focus and concentration development, Internal skills for handling pressure, and learning how to take responsibility for individual performance. There are a lot of benefits to sports, but I can see how people will argue that contact sports aren’t good for brain development. Even though contact sports are dangerous and need some work done on them it doesn’t mean all high school sports should be
Sports prepare kids to get ready for their grown-up lives. According to Josephson in the article 15 Reasons Competitive sports are Great For Kids, kids should experience the real life and she said that it is good for them to start looking at what they're going to start seeing when they grow up. She also said that when we are playing competitive sports it helps us
A major reason that I believe that Competitive sports are a good thing for youth and young teens is that it can help kids learn many skills and be able to handle challenges. In the article Sports: the Benefits of Competitive Athletic Sports Participation in today’sSports Climate, by Kirk Mango, it states,
First competitive sports are good is it builds character in kids are sometimes you can only learn certain things from sports like what hard work is. According to the (National Council of Youth Sports) they say there are over 40 million kids are in competitive sports and that helps because when we grow up there will be a verity of adults with different lessons that they have learned and that will help when
YAY I WE’VE JUST WON THE TOURNAMENT!!! A lot of people think that competitive sports are not beneficial for kids, but I think competitive sports are really beneficial for younger kids. Competitive sports help build a stronger person. Kids can learn a lot about discipline and their academics, they’ll want to learn in school because if they don’t they can get kicked off the team. Also sports at school can help kids stay fit and healthy. This can decrease obesity and kids that are overweight. Competitive sports can help kids with their problem solving skills. Kids won’t back out of a challenge they’ll keep trying to finish it.
Imagine a world where everyone in the league or tournament got a trophy just for participating. It would hurt because you wouldn’t get the spectacular recognition that you deserve for winning and being great. Competitive sports allow kids to get the recognition they deserve for over achieving. Competitive sports also allow kids to learn a lot of things from the game, make sure they’re fit and healthy, and lastly it makes kids strive and achieve for their goals. Therefore, competitive sports are, in fact, beneficial to kids.
A recent survey done says “Over forty-five million kids participate in organized youth sports, out of those forty-five million eighty percent of them quit by the age of fifteen” (Stankovich 2). It is not likely that these kids quit their sport just because, there must have been a reason like: their coach was working them too hard, their parents were trying to push them to succeed, or the environment just became too intense. It is not fair for these kids to quit because of other people, the only reason they should have to quit is if they just do not like the sport anymore. Another survey of 1,250 high level athletes ages ten through eighteen was done and the result was “Only thirty percent of them actually enjoy their sport” (Matz 5). This survey shows that these thirty percent of kids must have been pushed hard by either a coach or their parents because they are successful athletes that did not quit because they did not enjoy their sport. This survey still proves though that youth sports are becoming too intense because they are causing kids to dislike the sport that they used to
The benefits of sports range from physical, mental, and social. Exercise keeps people fit, develops healthy muscle tone, and reduces heart and lung problems (Oak, Manali). Sports studies have shown that “youth are motivated and engaged in ways that do not happen regularly in any other parts of their lives. Their experience of sports stands out from nearly all other activities, including socializing and schoolwork, in providing enjoyment where they are exerting concerted effort toward a goal” (Larson, Reed, and Sean Seepersad). People who play sports bond over a common interest. This opens up children to meeting new kids and socializing with many more. In Kindergarten, I played baseball. Even though I did not truly understand all the mechanics of the game, I met new friends and began to develop motor skills. This was very useful starting at an early age and pushed me to stay active throughout my life.