Should Children be pushed to compete in sports

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Sports are the one thing that comes to a parents mind whenever their child has nothing productive to do and are just lying around. As we get older, sports can become relatively stressful to us because we constantly worry about homework, school, and occasionally work, but that is not always the case with young children. When we are younger we have countless amounts of energy stored in our bodies and hardly run out of it. This is why sports can truly be beneficial for us, especially when we begin to participate in them at a young age. Although some people believe parents try to become coaches to their children on the field, children should still be pushed to compete in sports at an early age by their parents but to a certain extent. This is because sports will make them tough, know how to handle a win and a loss, and make them less likely to get into trouble. “More than 30 million children and adolescents in the United States participate in group or individual sports (Engle).” The messages in the media, however are often contradictory – sports are healthy; sports are stressful, even dangerous – sports promote cooperation, sports breed unhealthy competition and burnout (Engle). According to the United Nations Report on Sport, Recreation and Play, physical inactivity was estimated to cause 1.9 million deaths worldwide annually in 2000. Research shows that, in addition to being a source of just plain fun, sports promote healthy development in many areas including positive effects that last into adulthood (Engle). Sports help physical, cognitive, academic, psychological, and character development. The definition of pushed or pushing simply means exerting force (someone or something), typically with one’s hand, in order to move...

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...We can do this by constantly competing on and off the field all the time. Until we have no more breathes, no more energy, and no more live left in us, we have to keep on performing at a high level. Sports are like a book. If we read and read it all the time, we will have the extreme knowledge about everything the sport has to offer. We need sports to live content and that is a fact. Just Play It.

Works Cited

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Heffernan, Lisa. "Why Parents Should Push Their Kids to Play Team Sports." Empty Nest Parenting: Grown and Flown. N.p., 20 Nov. 2013. Google. 18 Mar. 2014.
McCormick, John. "Kids and Team Sports: Should Parents Push Their Children to Play?" TheHuffingtonPost.com, 19 Feb. 2013. Google. 18 Mar. 2014.

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