Children Sport

Today's parents want their children get comprehensive development, they not only focus on children's academic record, they also are concerned about children's athletic ability. Many parents send their children to school sport teams and training camps to get the organized training. However, some people argue that when children participate in organized sports, parents and coaches emphasize too much winning and losing, which will limit the development of the child, putting too much pressure on kids, and making it easy for them to get injured. In my opinion, sports should be somewhat of an outlet, an escape for children to enjoy themselves apart from their everyday life, not an added stress. Children should purely be having fun playing the sports that they love. For this reason, kids under 12 should not do competitive sports in their childhood.

Too early to play competitive sports will take up the child's childhood, which might limit the development of the child. Although in order to succeed in an area, constant effort and practice is necessary. As Thomas Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration," it is particularly in the competitive sports. But kids under 12 should not spend most of their time in competitive sports' training, because they are still young, they should try different thing when they are young, then we can let them choose what they are interested in. When we ask most pro athletes what they were doing at age 10, most will say they were playing two to three sports, not just one. If kids don't try other sports, how do they know whether or not they might like those sports more or be better at them? For those kids who participate in competitive sports league or program, over the next few years, training intensifies and expands to the off-season, making practice essentially year-round (Stenson). When their friends keep trying different things to expand their interests or hanging out together, they still have to be train for the games. And for those kids who learn gymnastics or ballet, they have to limit sweet foods or fried chicken in order to keep in good shape. As Jacqueline Stenson points out on the NBC News, "They may have to sacrifice other interests and give up most of the down time that allows them to just be kids." Parents should not let intense training influence their child's development .

The experts in the field mostly point to parents as the prime culprits in promoting a competition-crazed environment in youth sports (Stenson). Too much pressure from the parents and coaches will burnout the children's interest. When Faigenbaum, an associate professor of exercise science at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, asks kids who have quit why they are no longer interested in sports, their typical response is "It's not fun anymore." "Most children would rather play on a losing team than sit on the bench of a winning team" (Stenson), Faigenbaum says. The goals of sports for kids