What is Wrong/Right With Youth Sports?
We are running a Youth Sports League in Arizona and want feedback from parents on what they like and dislike about youth sports. We are doing this for the kids, we want it to be fun!
What’s wrong right now is the degree of competitiveness that you see in the parents. They want to repair their failures through their children. And like it or not…their children are going to win, win, win no matter what the cost to the child.
You see the consequences on TV all the time…Dad beats up his 4 year old son’s soccer coach; Moms get into a fistfight in the bleachers at a pee-wee football game; Coach tackles and assaults member of opposing team. It’s pathetic.
If sports are going to be fun…then it has to be fun for the children. Not for the adults. If a kid isn’t having fun, he should never be forced to play just because his parents want him to win someday.
What’s good about sports: It gives children exercise. It can teach them how to lose and still feel good.
February 24th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
What’s wrong right now is the degree of competitiveness that you see in the parents. They want to repair their failures through their children. And like it or not…their children are going to win, win, win no matter what the cost to the child.
You see the consequences on TV all the time…Dad beats up his 4 year old son’s soccer coach; Moms get into a fistfight in the bleachers at a pee-wee football game; Coach tackles and assaults member of opposing team. It’s pathetic.
If sports are going to be fun…then it has to be fun for the children. Not for the adults. If a kid isn’t having fun, he should never be forced to play just because his parents want him to win someday.
What’s good about sports: It gives children exercise. It can teach them how to lose and still feel good.
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February 24th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Yeah all the bad stuff comes from the parents and coaches. The good is that the kids learn how to work hard for something they want through competition.
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