Forcing A Child

What Does Forcing a Child to do Sports do to the Child? Naval Officer Robert Ballard once said, “Follow your own passion- not your parents’ not your teachers’- yours”. In today’s society what a parent thinks affects what a child thinks. A child values parent’s happiness over their own. Children are scared to let their parents down due to disciplinary actions and consequences. More than twenty-six million kids play sports around the world starting as young as age six. Forcing a child into doing a sport can damage a child’s well-being, physical-being and will cause them to not have any interests in the sport. Research has shown that children that are forced into sports can be affected negatively in a physically, mentally, and emotionally

Sports is an important aspect in American culture. Some parents value sports more than they do a child’s academics. Americans are so fond of sports, parents want their children’s to be stars, or heroes. Some parents push their child into a sport for their own enjoyment and pleasure instead of letting their child choose if they would like to or not. “The system is now designed to meet the needs of the most talented kids (Michael) even in communities, adults focus more on a child’s talent than anything else. Often parents do not realize the negative impact of forcing a child into a sport. While participating in sports has many positive benefits, for those children who are forced into a sports for their parent’s satisfaction, there are many negative physical side effects (Ellis). Many children who are pushed into a sport involuntarily will injure themselves so they do not have to continue participating

Kids who are forced into sports tend to have a lower self-esteem. When a child does not succeed in a sport they tend to beat themselves up over the embarrassment. Not succeeding in a sport that a child is forced in may cause the child feel: stressed, anxious, withdrawn and even depressed. When kids are pushed into sports that they don’t want to participate in and they don’t succeed in the sports they start to look down on themselves thinking that they aren’t good enough (Ellis). Kids want to make their parents happy so they push themselves hard. Some kids push themselves so hard it makes it difficult for them to focus on things that they should focus on. They take time away from greater things in life and focus on accelerating in sport. Competing in sports drains a child out and when a child is worn out they become tired, which will soon show in the child’s grades. A child will start spending progressively more and more time on correcting their physical faults and mistakes instead of their educations faults and mistakes (Forcing children to play sports). School is already a struggle in some subjects for children, being pushed to do sports will cause the situation be even worse (Felfe). “Education has mainly focused on the role of sports activities among high school students”. For a scholarship some teens in high school are only focused on their