Do you believe that children who are involved in athletics are better off in the future? Many people believe that the lessons they learned through athletics help them work and interact with others, learn responsibility, and help them work harder. After covering sports for a local news station for about a year now, I've witnessed first hand the pressure and how crazy parents get about their children in athletics. Do you believe parents put too much pressure on their children to do well in sports? And maybe not enough pressure to excel in school?
Justin Stout
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Justin Stout
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I think that it's a good thing for kids to be involved in sports if they want to be in sports. It's not a good think if the parents are forcing them to be in sports. However i can see why parents sometimes make their kids participate in sports. If they are in sports they aren't geting into trouble. Also there are so many sports scholarships a kid can get in today's society. With so many kids participating in extracurricular activities, your kids have to be involved to get noticed by the time college comes around. I do think that sometimes parents get out of controll and try to live vicariously through their children instead of letting the children do what they want and that's what i do not agree with.
I think sports are important to a kids upbringing. I think that sports make kids interact with others and helps them learn leadership skills that will help them in later years. They learn to work hard and be responsible. I totally agree with parents going to far with sports. Not to long ago i over heard a bunch of parents talking about the baseball season for 9 and 10 year olds. They were saying that they were scheduled to play over 50 games in one summer! The kids are going to end up quiting if they play that many games. They put so much pressure on there kids to be the next Derek Lee or Candace Parker, and its bogus for the child.
Children who are involved in atheletics are better off in the future. They will be more in shape and more confident about themselves later on in high school. All though some become to confident in the abilities and will begin to have a huge ego. I personally know people who when they where young was an all american athlete. They could have easily went to college to play basketball, but their ego become to big. They though that they were smarter then the coach which eventually lead them to quitting the team. Now they have become a nobody and only play basketball outside with the others who didn't make it anywhere. Some parents do put alot of pressure on their child to do well in sports. Many of them hurt their child mentally and phyiscally for not doing well, but the abuse does pay off some others in the long run.
I do believe that children who are involved in athletics growing up have a slight advantage over children who don't participate in athletics. They are able to meet other kids with the same interests and develop friendships. Playing sports doesn't always mean that they will become hard workers. In school the best athletes tend to slack off more than not. When parents put pressure on their children in athletics its an all or none result. Sometimes it will drive them forward and others it will drive them backwards or out of athletics. I understand why parents do it with all the scholarship opportunities these days and all the money atletes make in the pros. As far as schoolwork, each parent has a different view on schoolwork vs. athletics. In some cases, athletics may bring the child more opportunities than school would.
I feel that children that are involved in team sports will have a better since of leadership and responsiblity. kids who learn team work at a young age will be able to carry that on into future situatuions such as school clubs and further on into the work force. I do agree though parents sometimes live through their kids.They start to want for their kids what they didnt have and make their kids try harder to be perfect. I think that when you are a child playing team sports like tee ball or soccer it is supposed to be fun. A time to make memories and friends not to souly work on improving your skills for the game and becoming the "best". But the interaction as a child does build character for the future.
i cant really say one way or the other if kids are better of in the future because of athletics because athletics arent the only things that affect a childs future. i was involved with sports all through out school, swimming, track, cross country and cheerleading so i was staying active and mostly keeping out of trouble. i think by being in sports i did learn how to work in groups, learn responsibilities and to interact with others. in cheerleading i definitely had to work as a group and interact with others. being in any sport you have to be responsible enough to get to where you need to be on time so you can participate. i know from personal experience that parents can put a lot of pressure on their child through sports, but in my case it ended up okay. im the youngest of a family of runners so of course my track season was basically my moms track season and if what i did wasnt good enough, she let me know. yes nobody likes to lose, and i definitley dont but a parent doesnt need to get upset when their child wins, theres usually always someone better. i think my mom put more pressure on me to excel in sports then school because she knew that i could handle school on my own and she couldnt live my high school classes for me. sports are a good idea for kids to stay active and learn how to interect with people.
kaleen bittner
I believe that children should want to play a sport or simply choose to be involved in atheletics. If the child doesn't enjoy it, don't make them do it throughout the rest of their childhood because if they don't like it, then their attitude about it could affect other teammates and cause the whole team to do badly.
I do agree that children who are involved in atheletics perform better in life, school, and usually work as well. I didn't play little league baseball or anything but when I was in 6th grade I started to play "peewee" football. This was a starting block for me in my life, I learned small lessons, big lessons, and many things to this day have helped me to be a better person in general. Throughout my atheletic "career" I have had more energy to do things at work, school, and even beyond that. Being involved in sports, for me, I have become a better person by being more responsible, more respectful, and even patient.
With the parents, I totally see that in my work for the local Recreation Department. Parents just need to take a "chill pill" and let the kids play the game and let the referees' do their job without getting yelled at by the parents. I was watching a little kids basketball game a couple of months ago; this kid was shooting freethrows, he shot it and made it, but he stepped over the line. The referee blew the whistle and the parents were going crazy in the stands, yelling at the ref. and the even the kid was talking back to the ref.. Parents are rubbing off on their children, mainly with bad influence but we must remember that sometimes parents have good influence as well.
It does kind of seem like some parents care more about the atheletics than they do about academics, and that is just plain sad. I have seen others though that have taken their kid off of a team because their grades were too low.
The only advantage would be they might be more inclined to keep in shape as they grow older. I think the children need to be the ones that say whether or not they want to be in sports. Alot of parents think their children need to play sports because they did. The parents actually get into the sports more than the children do. I live in a smaller town and they parents tend to act like fools at most of the sporting events, especially when the children are at the younger ages of 10 to 14. I think good grades in school are way more important that sports, better grades tend to lead to better jobs.
I believe that it is good for kids to be given the responsibility to be involved in something. If it is sports, a club, or something else it will teach them responsibility and hard work. At the same time crazy parents are not good either. How would you do at work if you boss was constantly yelling at you to do better. The other thing I don’t like about kids sports today is the attitude that it is just as good to lose as it is to win, these douse not teach American exceptionalism which I believe is an important part of the foundation of youth today.
I think sports are great for kids even starting at a very young age. Theres always that chance that mabey they could make it big someday. But sports are good for many reasons theres nothing wrong or bad about being athletic. i think sports help kids meet new people and make new friends it also helps with there personality skills it doesnt sound like a big deal but personality can go a long way this day in age. I think that playing sports even helps you mature faster. Most of the coaches are focusing on your school grades to making sure that you are doing well enough in school to play the game which is also a nice benefit. I would only say that some not most but some of the parents out there are preasuring their kids to hard in sports and not enough in school but for the most part i would say thats not the case. so final answer i do believe that children that get involed in athletics at a young age can have some benefits to there lives in the future.
Ryan Brown
I truely feel that sports build your character a tremendous amount. It teaches you how to interact with others your age, develop a work ethic, become competative, learn to sacrifice for the benefits of others, and learn how to work with people to meet a single goal.
I played three sports all through high school and feel that if a kid feels too much presure it is usually self-inflicted. Sports are great for building relationships between friends, coaches, and even parents. If I ever had a tough game or loss my friends and parents were the first to be by my side. I feel that they are one of the finer things about high school and do not regret one minute of it. It is somewhat true that your school skills may suffer but I feel these are less important then building your character and relationships around you.
I believe that parents do put pressure on their children to excel in sports more than school work. Like the last question I just answered was about profession athletes making too much money. Every parents wants their children to make a lot of money. I don't think they realize that school work is more important, and that is where the real job comes in. Yes i would put my children in sports, but they also will keep up with their school work. If the work starts to decline, the sports will be taken away. I want my children to learn how to budget time, have responsibility, and the respect towards other. Not to play a sport and be that is all in life.
Katelyn Watterson 9:00
I think it just depends on the skill of the kid because if the kid sucks in sports and his mom n dad are trying to get him to play they might say he s not that good and encourage him to do better in school rather than sports. Even when they excell at sports you have to encourage them to do good in school or they wont be able to play. Sports does help you build social skills and work together. It keeps you out of trouble most of the time because you dont have a lot of free time.
Justin Peacock 1:00
there are many thing kids can learn from sports. with that being said, yes, sports can help a child's future. When a parent sits on the sideline sceaming and shouting at their kid, coaches, or refs that will set a bad example. How will a kid learn to deal with failure or learn from thier mistakes if they think it's someone elses fault? When these acts happen and the parent expects too much then the child may start to feel pressure. If too much pressure is applied and they stop having fun, nothing positve will be gained.
Danny W (8:00 a.m.)
I beleive that all children should play sports. They shouldnt be forced but should be able to choose. It's keeps them active and interactive. They will always have friends as long as they have teamates.
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