Children Need To Play Not Play Summary

Summary “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” by Jessica Statsky is a thoughtful insight on the competitive sports for children. She is of the view that the competitive sports can ruin the enjoyment that games are supposed to provide. These methods of playing the games like adults can prove to be lethal for physical and psychological health. The author quotes from an authentic source that “Kids under the age of fourteen are not by nature physical.” (Tutko)

Contact sports are the reason kids are getting hurt. Contact sports are good for kids. The Federal and state government should stop kids under 10 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.

Children have strived for years to make their parents, teachers and coaches proud of them. Kids have come to practice Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday, and Friday to get better, while their academics are suffering. Students have pushed their bodies to the limits, causing extreme injury that will hold them back from sports in the future. Student athletes are not getting the opportunity to play multiple sports during the year, because they are expected to spelize in one sport and focus on it year round, leaving no opportunity to play other sports or do other activities. Youth sports are becoming too intense for young children to keep up with.

Dr. Frank L. Smoll states, “All children and youth need vigorous physical activity as part of their daily lives, and sports provide the benefits of exercise and the potential for acquiring a sense of accomplishment.” (Smoll 1/2).

Introduction What is the significance of sports to you? According to the Long-Term Athlete Development pathway of Baly, Way and Higgs (2013), as a sports zealot, it must be in the last stage “Active for Life”. It is the ideal stage that every sport developer likes to help people attain. In order to develop this progress, it should start doing with student. However, most of the decision are not made by them, it should be parents mainly.

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.

The amount of children participating in competitive sports has been on a steady decline in the past decade. Between the years of 2008 and 2013, the total number of children participating in competitive sports has dropped by approximately 2.6 million. This is mainly due to the many negative impacts that young athletes face when partaking in these sports. Competitive sports involve sports where competition is encouraged, and where winning is more important than anything else. Competing in these sports causes the children to be vulnerable to many risks and many other negative impacts.

Children are playing just to win and the real spirit of the game fades out. (Word count: 196) Response I strongly agree with the point of Jessica Statsky in “Children Need to Play, Not Compete”. The way Statsky explains the facts by referring to other people is not questionable. The parents forcefully ask their children to join sports for the development of their bodies and mind.

“In the U.S., about 30 million children and teens participate in some form of organized sports, and more than 3.5 million injuries each year” claims Stanford Children’s Health. It’s definitely true that competitive sports can cause all sorts of injuries from big to small. The media teaches people simply that sports leads to horrific injuries and can cause stress, but what the mainstream media hardly discusses are the great benefits of competitive sports. While there may be some negatives to competitive sports, that’s just life, and to add on to that; there are plenty of benefits which are sure to override to media’s facts. Kids should play competitive sports because competitive sports teach children powerful life lessons, contributes to their social and mental stability, and because of the physical gain competitive sports provides.

Sports is basically an activity done for pleasure, which needs physical effort and skill. Some people, who dedicate themselves to this activity, consider it as a passion to compete against others in their skill, ability and spirit. Sports also help in inculcating a certain discipline as well as the spirit of brotherhood or the ‘team spirit’ in the sports persons. But today’s sports involving violence like boxing, rugby, kick boxing, karate and many more are gaining the popularity among the society. This kind of sport has a lot of impact on young people especially children.

The Sport is a devastating road to heartbreak and failure. (I suggest, To experience sports, you have to experience heartbreak and failure - sounds a bit awkward to say “the sport”). It is the definition of it. Don't get me wrong, sports can lead to success, fame, and many other glorious things that others can't imagine. Like the money, land and the "acquaintances"

Children tie their sports performance to their self-esteem according to “The Pros and Cons of Youth Sports Aren't Only Physical”, and this could be very bad. “Who your child is as a person shouldn’t be tied closely to the ability to hit home runs or score touchdowns. If it is, that’s a guaranteed set-up for feelings of failure and low self-esteem” (Lindholm par. 3). Children that may be linking their self-worth to sports can make them not like it and make it an unenjoyable experience for them. While low self-esteem is one problem with sports, “The Pros and Cons of Youth Sports Aren't Only Physical” explains that high self-esteem could be another issue.

In “Promoting Healthy Competition Using Modified Rules and Sports and Other Cultures”, Phoebe Constantinou (2014) writes about the benefits and characteristics of healthy competition and how it encourages youths to compete cooperatively, and providing adaptions to current sports in the education system to promote such values. However, she fails to account for the negative facets of imposing such guidelines and how reducing aggression from sport can have consequences. In this article, Constantinou (2014) views “healthy competition” (pp. 31) as a means of reducing the hostility in competition and promoting collaboration. In modern sport today, she feels that competition has degenerated to hostility between players, due to the “win-at-all-costs

Thus, contact sports are not worth the risk of becoming distant from everyone else you love. Many experts also agree that contact sports can weaken the confidence of kids. According to Dr. Marika Lindholm, “Too often, a win-at-all-costs mentality devastates young athletes” (Lindholm 2). Allowing children to tie their mental health to sports can seriously harm their well-being. Whenever a kid who loves to win loses, it can destroy their self-esteem.

Many kids can’t do the things that they would love to do, because of safety issues. As of late, many people have been talking about competitive sports, saying bad things about it. How they are bad for kids, and can injure kids very badly. However, these overprotective parents couldn’t be more wrong. Competitive sports benefit kids in many ways, and here are three examples.