Should Children Be Allowed To Be Involved In Sports

It’s been debated that having kids participate in sports can be either a positive or negative factor in a child’s development. Is participating in sports a positive outcome in a youth’s development? Through my own personal experience and through the research that I have conducted I believe that participating in sports is a true benefit to a child’s development. Participating in sports can contribute to a healthy individual, developing problem-solving skills, social interaction, promotes following direction and rules, goal setting and creating plans, promotes self-esteem, reduces stress, helps academic success, and a higher quality of life.

Youth sports have many issues that affects kids like injuries, lack of interest in the sport and most importantly bad parenting. The problem in youth sports is that parents expect too much from their children at a young age causing them to stop doing sports at the age 13, more or less. Parents are making their children play year round sports that can lead into injuries. What I’ve researched so far, many articles and journals are meant for parents to make them improve their parenting on young athletes. I’ve read that many parenting styles regarding youth sports are repetitive. In other words, many parents are making the same mistakes like being too hard on their kid or enforcing training for many hours. From my research so far there are good and bad physical and mental outcomes of kids doing sports at an early age. Many of which are mainly good but all

Sports are good for exercising but it can become very intense in the future. Intense practicing among youth sports programs can be damaging to youth athletes. Sports involve teaching tactics, some children may be at that point where they are not able to do it. Some parents argue about their child's coach is too tough on them and emotionally that could damage for young athletes. There is instances that children

According to the National Athletic Trainer’s Association (NATA), more than half of all visits for sports related concussions are by children between the ages of eight and thirteen. Dr. Paul Stricker finds that today’s children athletes are suffering from injuries due to overuse and acute trauma, which used to only be found in adults. Much of this is from focusing on a single sort which uses repetitive motions, and from training too intensely at a young age. Recent research says that as many as four in ten emergency room visits for children between five and fourteen years old are for sports-related injuries. Research proves that no specific sport is to blame for sports-related injuries. Experts say that playing one sport all the time or playing several spots at the same time are big factors. “Kids sports have become much more competitive,” says Dr. Jordan Metzl. “And in general, high-level competition for young kids is not a great

Competitive sports in some cases are becoming unhealthy for children. Most children would rather play on a losing team than sit on the bench of a winning team. Youth sports are a great idea to get children up and active, as well as improve their social skills. Just like every other thing in life it is important to practice and work hard to achieve success. However it is unhealthy to foster the results over the wants or needs or wants of the child. Aside from the mental stress that young athletes may experience from intense training and physical play long lasting injures is a growing concern. Fact is competitive sports is a double edge sword if done right it is the greatest thing world, but if done wrong it can be very unhealthy for a child.

In the past couple of decades, there has been a rampant increase in the participation and viewing of youth sports. Parents push their children to do these sport practices and games to develop character, skill, and the value of giving something your all. Some parents even enlist their children in these intensive programs with the dream of their child going pro. While it is certainly true that dedicating your time and effort into youth sport programs, there has been an epidemic of youth sports related injuries that have long term effects on a player's body. This among many other signs, show that youth sports are taken far too seriously, and frequently put kids and young adults alike at huge risk.

According to www.alfiekohn.org, “More than 3.5 million children ages 14 and under get hurt annually playing sports.” With so many children getting hurt, it is no wonder why some parents do not allow their children to play. But some parents, according to the article, Listening to Wisdom from an 10 year-old Boy”, …kids who played through pain and got seriously hurt.” Many kids refuse that sports can be dangerous for them, but they can. Also from the same article, the same boy says, “I only have one brain and I do not want to hurt it playing football.” Some children, however realize the

Many parents, may think that competitive sports may have a huge impact on their child. Research shows, that it’s a lot more dangerous than what they might think. Children should not be able to play in competitive sports, because they play sports too much, and children more than likely to have a serious injury, and playing sports, can put a lot of stress on many kids.

Sports are a huge part of our society and many children grow up wanting to be professional athletes. Parents may push their kids to be the best they can be and place them in camps, training facilities and programs for them to get better. There will always be parents that want their children to be the best; more and more sport opportunities have opened and accepted children of all ages. “As more and more children participate in sports and recreational activities, there has been an increase in acute and overuse injuries” (Adirim & Cheng, 2003).

"Nationwide, about a third of high school students are overweight or obese...past studies have generally found that while walking and biking to school increases physical activity levels, it has little or no impact on body weight." (O'Connor) A competitive sport is a contest or game in which people do certain physical activities and compete against each other according to a specific set of rules. Competitive sports have always been a contested topic because some people argue that they have high risks of injuries, but others, like myself, say that children should be encouraged to play competitive sports because they instill confidence and happiness, teach important skills and help students in school, and help children maintain healthy weight.

The majority of young kids and preteens spend most of their childhood playing competitive sports. Children in youth sports can range from age 5-18; however, they do not usually start getting intense until age seven. Sports should become more and more competitive as the athlete grows and improves. Many say that sports are great for the development of kids, teaching them teamwork and leadership skills; while others say that they cause more harm for a child than good. The intensity of youth sports has increased dramatically over the last several decades to an unreasonable state. The amount and severity of injuries youth sports cause, the continued increase in expense, and the toll it takes mentally and physically on the children involved

After being involved in a sport for a long period of time it teaches the child many different obstacles, one for example would be the child’s public health. Why is public health so important? Well I think it’s so important because the child will learn skills that the school teacher won’t be teaching them. The involvement of sports outside the classroom will show the child how to work with one another as a team and together. Sports could also help the child become more involved in school as well, because when they get older if they want to stay in the sport they love they will get the grades they need as

Some think that sports are good for children because they help with making friends and it helps they children with school and their grades. But, others think that it is a bad thing for children some people say that it costs too much or they don’t want the risk of getting injured. This is an issue that needs to be solved. Should we let children play sports or should they not.? Some sports put’s too much pressure on some youths and injuries are at high risks to happen to youths.

“Repetitive blows to the head in high-impact contact sports like football, ice hockey, mixed martial arts and boxing place athletes at risk of permanent brain damage.” Sport is very danger? Yes, but these high-impact contact sport can not be applicable in children sports. Sports is a way to increase physical fitness, rather than increase hurt for children. This reason why the basic sports is so important, because “organized sports should be aimed at the developmental level of the participants.” When children can not afford training of sports, it will cause permanent damage and feel

The effects that parent’s involvement can effects a child’s health dramatically. The amount of children playing sports is declining do to their parent’s involvement. The overall concept of this research is that parent involvement in sports has a huge effect not only on their children but on companies and culture of sports. “So most of my advice to parents is not to push harder but to back off, to focus on the enduring and hard-earned benefits of the process rather than the fleeting high of each positive outcome.”(Morgan) Parent need to wake up and realize that their child doesn’t always have talent in the sport and to try something different. Sports aren’t for everyone, there are other things such as dance, singing, band, and academics. Parent