Competitive Sports

To begin why children should not play competitive sports is because they can get injured, which may impact their entire life. For example, when playing football, kids tackle other players which may result in head injury, broken bones, etc. But the worst condition is head injury, because it can cause alzheimer, concussion,

Summary In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” Jessica Statsky tries to demonstrate the negative effect of organized sports on the physical and psychological health of growing child. She claims that the games are not festive but they end up in the wrong development of a child’s brain. The coaches and parents have high hopes for their children that result in the pressure building. This changes the purpose of sports from teaching tolerance, teamwork and sportsmanship to merely winning by all means.

Summary “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” by Jessica Statsky is a thoughtful insight on the competitive sports for children. She is of the view that the competitive sports can ruin the enjoyment that games are supposed to provide. These methods of playing the games like adults can prove to be lethal for physical and psychological health. The author quotes from an authentic source that “Kids under the age of fourteen are not by nature physical.” (Tutko)

John O’Sullivan the author of changing the game says kids are crying after the big impact but are sent back out to play again. Some young kids don’t get to play in most games because they are not good enough and they might ruin the game. Cracked.com says coaches have been caught cheating players tests so they can play in the big game when they are supposed to be studying. Schools also spend way too much money on new equipment and not on trainers. Less than 40% of schools have athletic trainers in the

Do you think beating children is the way to solve behavioral problems? Would you let a stranger do it? Physical punishment isn’t the right way to solve a child’s behavioral issues. In Olga Khazan’s essay “No Spanking, No Time Out, No Problem” Olga Khazan uses emotion to persuade the parents into manipulating their child’s mind into being positive instead of their usual behavior that consists of negative thoughts.

Chris Crutcher , wrote this book for teens to open up more to their parents to speak out when they’re feeling a certain way. Not bottle up their emotions and become stressed and depressed over the situations they’re put in. He also wrote this for parents who ride they kids to the point where they’d rather die than play sports. Sports are supposed to be fun and entertaining. But if you as a parent put your child down and make them feel bad for doing something wrong is where you mess up.

Contact sports have more negative effects than positive effects and due to this kids should stop playing contact

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It is unfair to to competing athletes that do not use PED’s and it is destructive to the the history of records and awards. Steroids being used by our role models and awe inspiring athletes, creates a falseness to the sports field as a whole. It disrupts the trust in all professional athletes. From a very young age, we are taught that cheating is wrong.

Participation trophies are giving children an unrealistic outlook on life by giving them what they did not deserve. If a child comes in fourth, fifth or even third and second in some sports don 't deserve a trophy for showing up. Kids usually outgrow the participation stage when they get into middle school, but before that is the crucial learning skills a kid goes through and if they want to continue a sport or not. “ In youth sports, no two words are more inflammatory than “participation trophy,” those “awards” given to kids just for showing up, regardless of how well they play”. Says Chris Waller from Gale opposing viewpoints.

This allows for children to grow up believing that they can cheat and get away with it. These children then spread this ideology to their friends who are also beginning to think it is okay to cheat. All these children are therefore growing up believing that it is okay to cheat; they then teach their own children that cheating is an acceptable behavior. This results in a national decline in integrity because the upcoming generations are being raised with the ideology that it is appropriate for them to

Other People think it is not good because of the injuries in the games. I will be talking about how competitive sport put too much stress on kids. That this stress can happen. That the coach can be a little too harsh on the kids and the win or lose situation were kid play sport a while then people start keeping score and can not handle losing.

Lastly reason competitive sports can be bad is that it can chip off a participant 's self esteem and can make them anxious when they feel that they don’t have the ability to be like others and athletic goals will just go down and down every time. Although self esteem can set goals, it can overwhelm and worry the players which makes them in a difficult mental state from (Bailey, pg 1). Players can give anxiety from different hobbies but mostly sports from the buildup of pressure mostly towards games. For example Everyone gets a little nervous before a big game or athletic event. However, for those who experience the severe symptoms associated with social anxiety disorder (SAD), the quality of their athletic performance will often suffer from (Cuncic, pg 1).

The main reason for my argument kids shouldn 't start competitive sports at a young age is because they can get stuck with long term effects. “Sustaining repeated head impacts during a critical neurodevelopmental period may increase the risk of later life cognitive impairment.” (Minnpost, by Susan Perry.) When a child gets repeatedly injured the risks of having long term effects are increased. Another

Twenty years ago, children across the country played multiple sports to stay in shape, make friends, but mostly, to stay active. If you were an athlete back then, you would go out daily and practice the "sport of the season" will your friends, such as: baseball in the spring; soccer in the fall; and basketball in the winter. Fast forward to now, where most athletes are still following this practice, however, more and more athletes are focusing on just one sport at a younger age. I believe that this "one sport specialization" is wrong because it can harm an athlete's physical, mental, and social well being.