Why Do Children Avoid Playing?

With each throw to home plate he felt a little bit more pain. Instead of resting him Mark Hyman sent his son out to pitch the very next game. Stories like these are not uncommon with anyone who child has played on any team. Over the last few years, adults have taken over kid’s sports. Many children under the age fifteen required medical treatment for sports injuries and nearly half of them are only the result of simple overuse. The quest to turn children into superstar’s are taken a toll on their

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

Any child who participates in sports only raises the likelihood that they will suffer one of these injuries. The most deadly and life altering injury children can are concussions. Concussions are a part of all sports and are unavoidable. Many children are young and may not be able to recognize if they have suffered a concussion or not. This is extremely dangerous because any physical activity is unhealthy when trying to heal the brain and if they get another concussion, it can have be life changing for the child “A second concussion soon after the first one does not have to be very strong for its effects to be permanently disabling or deadly.”(“concussion”). Because of how easily a concussion could go unnoticed in young children it leads as the most deadly injury from sports. Some children may even lie about how they feel knowing that if they do have a concussion they won't be able to play their sport for a few weeks at least. For how dangerous and deadly of an injury, concussion are they are very prevalent in contact sports “the likelihood of suffering a concussion while playing a contact sport is estimated to be as high as 19 percent per year of play”(“concussion”). That means if your child participates in a contact sport for more than 5 years they will most likely suffer at least one concussion if not more. Concussions are a huge danger to any child participating in sports and no sport will be able to give back what a conclusion could take away from your child's

Families love the fact of their kids playing a sport, making friends, doing well in school. They rather the kids be in a sport then out here on the streets. But as a parent you think of the good and the bad outcomes to playing sports. Especially the mothers, a father knows and he expects his son to be tough and never quit. So to the father it’s just a simple sport but is it worth losing your son to something as serious as this injury. A mother not knowing the sport, she still feels there are some down falls to the sport but never thinks twice about it happening to her kid in particular. Families who will never get their sons

You are sitting in the bleachers of your son's baseball game, squished in between all the loud ruckuss of parent cheering and yelling. It’s the 9th inning and there is one strike left. You watch as your son lifts his leg, wind his arm back and throws the ball with all his strength. You hear a loud crack followed with a scream. Your heart starts pounding and your feet ache to run towards him, but all you can do is sit there and watch as the whole team rush over to him trying to cheer him up but before you know it your son is in the hospital. You sit there only watching his shoulder being wrapped around forming a big cast. Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries treated in hospitals. With the rising

In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete”, the author Jessica Statsky stated that imposition of children’s sports into adult standard by parents and coaches to their children, can make these sports unenjoyable and unbeneficial to children. She said that these sports such as Peewee Football and Little League Baseball can have harmful effects on both physical and psychological states of children ages six to twelve because it is played competitively thus inappropriate to their ages. In addition, because of the coaches’ and parents’ value for competition and winning, many of the children were eliminated before they become ready to face the completion thus, they didn’t really succeed in discovering the true potentials of the children.

You may be thinking, “Well aren’t sports dangerous?” but there are ways to prevent injuries from sports. If the kids play safely, and understand to only use necessary force, there will be an extreme decrease in the number of sports induced injuries. Children should always be paying attention while playing potentially dangerous sports and move out of the way if something or someone is coming towards them. Sports are not as dangerous as they may seem as long as kids play safely, and pay attention.

My report paper is based upon Erikson’s psychosocial approach in the dimension of play during the life stages of infancy and early school age. Psychosocial approach interested me the most because it involves every stage of development from infancy to death in which there is a psychosocial crisis that the person has to overcome to successfully move to the next stage of development. These psychosocial crises are viewed as tension which are a normal experience for each individual because a person’s competencies and the demands that are place upon them by society are not the same. Erikson’s view of play interested me more than Piaget and Vygotsky’s which is why I chose to focus on the psychosocial theory of play. According to Erikson, “The play often not only represented the problem but also offers a solution so that children experience some new sense of resolution and a reduction in the tension associated with the conflict” (Newman & Newman, 2012, p. 214). Psychosocial is a combination of interactions among biological, psychological, and societal processes which allows us to understand that this approach has a multi-disciplinary view. When a person has a positive resolution to each crisis it helps the person become able to be successful in the following stages which is why it is so important to be able to adapt. The way a person handles their life experiences also influences how the direction of development occurs as well as the biological and societal aspects. These

The competitive sports result in psychological issues to children. When children start to compete, they act like adults. They are required to think only how they will win the game instead of thinking how they will enjoy and have fun from the game. “The primary goal of the professional athlete - winning - is not appropriate for children. Their goal should be having fun, learning, and being with friends. (Statsky 154). Children are too young to think and deal with winning and losing. When coaches and parents expect too much from children they will make so much effort to meet that expectation, but if they did their best and they fail or lose they will feel so disheartened and their self-confidence will decrease. They will suffer from psychological

Competitive sports can bring dangers upon children. The article, “Violence and Athletic Children” states, “Young athletes are often pressured to perform and achieve at ever-increasing levels,”. This pressure on kids can lead to careless acts of aggression and violence. Injuries from competitive sports are one of the leading causes of emergency room visits for maturing youth. While Physical activity is needed for growth in children, the activity level can become too excessive

The first reason that kids should not play competitive sports is that they are stressful. Kids who play competitive sports often experience stress from wanting the recognition involved with winning. According to LiveStrong, “The mounting pressure to play well can increase stress and make children feel bad and lose confidence should they make mistakes or lose” (Huggins 2017). This shows that kids want to win and be the best player on the team, which can result in stress or pressure. When kids are put on the bench or the team loses, the players may experience low self-esteem. Also, participating in a competitive sport also takes up time because of the intense training schedule that is demanded. Because of that, kids may stress about schoolwork or other activities. This can develop failing grades or other consequences. Time.com states, “Student-athletes tend to take easier classes and get lower grades than non-athletes” (Square 2015). This is important to notice because the intense schedules that the athletes have may not allow enough time for schoolwork. The schoolwork may not be completed or fully understood, which can lead to lower academic excellence and poor grades. Competitive sports are unhealthy to kids’ minds. They can cause stress and pressure, and may lead to poor grades and other academic issues.

“There is currently every 25 seconds an athlete gets hurts and goes to the emergency room and there no minor injuries and that's 3,397 people a day”! (“Sports Injury Statistics”) the problem of sport injuries is no joke, just one major injury can change your life forever like never able to play sports again. This is a huge problem all over the world and the only way to prevent it is to work together and to , educate them, have parent involvement, and upgrade the gear.The first way to prevent kid’s sports injuries is to educate them about it. There are many kids that get hurt in one year some serious some not so serious but the point is if they were just educated about maybe the injury never would of happen. “Be aware and knowledgeable

First of all, students and children who play sports may often get hurt. They can get hurt in serious ways, like concussions. According to nytimes.com, “...Teenagers dying after playing too soon after a concussion.” shows an example on how bad injuries could get. If you think about it, teenagers who play too early before completely healing from a concussion can kill you, then

Everyone understands wanting the best for children and wanting to put them in a situation where they are most likely to succeed. It is when we start becoming too judgemental about what is safe and a good for our children that situations such as the push for the end of youth sports begin. It is the parents in these cases that are causing the mass hype of the situation and blowing it out of proportion. There are many benefits physically and psychologically from participating in youth sports that are essential for a child's growth and development as a person. All kids at some point are going to get some bumps and bruises along the way, so to protect them in the way that a lot of people think they can is near impossible. Whether it happens in one’s living room or out on a football field it is impossible to fully protect against it. This is no reason that the public should fear youth sports. The moral lessons a child learns when participating in these sports far outweigh the risks of not participating in them. A child may have a few bumps at the end of the day, but but they will go away and

Youth sports in America have become a trend that has touched every household. Sports have become so ingrained in American culture that toddlers have even begun to experience it. Almost all children from the ages of six to ten have kicked a soccer ball or hit a ball with a bat. While studies have shown that youth team sports have a tremendous positive impact on a child’s social development, many children have run into serious injuries. Some of these injuries can require extensive surgeries, rehabilitation, and could cause developmental problems in these young children. Many of these injuries stem from overuse and children not being developmentally ready for the intensity of a certain sport. Today, competitive sports culture has caused a rise in youth injuries related to sports.