Youth Sports Research Paper

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The article this week discussed a very interesting topic does youth sports count as a positive development? This article discusses how there is a widespread belief that sports participation can help contribute to youth development because sports assumed essential goodness and purity is passed to those who partake in it. I’m a personally strong believer that youth sports are a lot more than learning the attributes and the fundamentals of the game. Participating in youth sports help children learn about teamwork, leadership and sportsmanship which can all be something that can help children contribute to their development as solid citizens of society. This article states that sports are viewed as an effective activity for solving problems and …show more content…

It also improves health, fitness and an overall sense of physical well-being which is very important to today’s youth, which is very important in today’s day and age due to the fact social media has taken the world by storm and things have become a lot more accessible. Sport evangelists claim that sports help structure the children’s l lives around mainstream values and goals. A great example of this would be the movie Hardball which depicts a man with a gambling addiction, gets dragged into coaching a Chicago ghetto little league baseball team from the Cabrini Green housing projects in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend. This movie shows an example of children being removed from the streets and consigns them to adult-controlled environments and also helps them learn self-control. Today there are people working and volunteering in hundreds of programs worldwide that use sports component in their efforts to help develop today’s youth. I even got the opportunity to coach a youth basketball last summer and learned a lot about myself each child and even got the opportunity to learn a little bit about their

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