Children Need To Play Summary

As the writer explains the organized sports have many negative effects on a child’s development and growth. The way Statsky explains her ideas on the basis of facts and examples that it is hard to overlook them. Sports activities are designed to promote teamwork and cooperation but if adult standards are imposed on a child it might ruin the physical health as well as affect the child mentally. The basic aim of sports is to encourage the teamwork spirit and to emphasize fitness, self-esteem, and sportsmanship but if the children are forced to follow the adult principles they may hurt themselves physically and psychologically.

In “Do Sports Build Character or Damage it?” Mark Edmundson explains the pros and cons of children who grow up playing football. Firstly, he believes the perseverance it takes to show up for hard practices is useful later in life. Especially when they get frustrated with something and don’t notice the little bits of progress they are making.

(179). All the evidence in this essay proves that youths should not be banned from sports that turn violent by people’s solo

These not only influence their physical health but also deteriorate their psychological health. The author is also of the view that the high hopes of parents and coaches need to be lowered as well. These burdening high expectations can cause trouble to the innocent mind of the child. The author also claims that the rules,

Although she may not be famous she is still credible in a way, because she uses credible sources to backup her claim on why it is not good for children to be exposed to competitiveness at a young age. Jessica Stasky n.d. is an American college student who wrote “Children Need To Play, Not Compete” for her college composition course(Jessica Statsky, n.d., 270 para. I). However, Jessica Statsky is not fully credible since she is only a college student writing about why people should not support children playing competitive sports at a young age. In “Children Need To Play, Not Compete” Statsky writes about how it is unhealthy to put children in at adult standards in relation to competitiveness.

Have you ever wanted to live an active and healthy life, as well as an improvement in grades? I believe youth sports will help all of those problems and many more. Most sports are team sports that also teach your child teamwork. Playing youth sports is a terrific experience for you or your child. There are many reasons why I feel that children should play youth sports.

Sports are altering youth development mentally, physically, and healthfully because of the way that young adolescents are treating their bodies in sports. Adolescents are being affected mentally because of sports. When sports are played, many risks are flagged, such as injuries. Injuries can cause long term results such as emotional reactions, sadness, isolation, irritation, lack of motivation, and loss of sleep (Mind,

Health and contact sports are something parents worry about as over 500 deaths in the past 3 years from contact sports alone are making parents stand out against these sports and if the government doesn 't do anything about it the number of 7% overall contact sports drop will just keep getting lower and lower each time. Dr. William Speight also had this to say “Many other kids have suffered paralyzing spinal injuries”(Pennington). Kids being paralyzed is the fear for many athletes these days and the number f kids getting paralyzed has increases 2% which is equivalent to about 8,000 kids each year which is crazy to think about kids can 't play sports for the rest of thrie and maybe not be able to live their life because of it so next you hear mom or dad i wanna play sports your answer should be a simple NO. Kids under 10 need to stop playing contact sports because 45% of kids under 10 getting hurt are from contact sports and 5% of the time its ending that kids chances to play sports in the feature, Not to mention contact sports can also make kids go to their fullest and being burned out and although contact provide some kids will useful tools in life most of the time there is more negative than positive. Health, Age, Contact, parents, are some of the many reasons contact sports can be very dangerous for the youth.

Sports create many opportunities for kids and permit them to learn lessons which they might not learn in the normal classroom;

Sports show children that discipline and playing by the rules are incredibly valuable assets. Sports also show that breaching the rules and cheating will only set you back. " Strong discipline underpins our sport. We ensure that our sport is one of controlled physical endeavour and that we are honest and fair. We obey the laws of the game which ensure an inclusive and exciting global sport.

Children who participate in competitive sports at a young age experience more serious negative impacts than positives, including a risk of severe injury, losing

This quote shows us that your kid shouldn’t play because you want them to or that if they do play, and they don’t play well for you to belittle them. This quote shows us that your kid shouldn’t play because you want them to, or that if they do play, and they don’t play well for you to belittle them. You should also not be comparing them to other players as that just tells them they shouldn’t be confident and that can lead them away from the sport instead of bringing them closer to it. Finally, contact sports are not worth the risk because Children can be hurt and have a low-self-esteem because of the things said to them by their parents and fellow

Summary In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” Jessica Statsky tries to demonstrate the negative effect of organized sports on the physical and psychological health of growing child. She claims that the games are not festive but they end up in the wrong development of a child’s brain. The coaches and parents have high hopes for their children that result in the pressure building. This changes the purpose of sports from teaching tolerance, teamwork and sportsmanship to merely winning by all means.

Competitive sports provide a community which kids can work with and beat other teams with. “Playing a sport helps children develop social skills which would benefit them even when they grow older. Playing sports teaches them about teamwork and cooperating with others. They learn to interact with people from different ages” (Mahaseth). When these kids grow up, they can use these skills to be able to cooperate and talk with their colleagues.

Skeptics have been arguing whether kids should or should not compete in competitive sports. Many kids around the world already play competitive sports to begin with. Three out of four American families have one school-aged child that plays an organized sport, which is a total of 45 million kids (Atkinson). Competitive sports is also very beneficial. “Playing a sport can help children to better at school work”(“Sport For Children”).