Argumentative Essay: Dropping Out Of Youth Sports

Often, kids quit playing a sport because their parents push them to the extreme. Unfortunately, seventy percent of kids drop out of sports by the age of 13. One reason for this is their parents control them like a documentary I watched “trophy kids,” you watch five parents push their kids to the extreme and more, and its hard to watch at times. Parents try to make their kids the best, but they don’t know when to stop pushing them. The most important thing about this documentary is you see the kids losing their confidence. At such a young age kids need to rely on there parents for support. The parents bring their kids down which brings their self-confidence down. A story I read on “Competitive Advantage” a dad tells his kid he isn’t good enough and never will be good enough for him. The friend said, “I’ve never seen a kid with less confidence then him, you will never see him smile around his father” That’s just awful for kids …show more content…
“Parents tend to think everyone’s going to the Olympics,” says Patrick Mediate, a physical education teacher at Greenwich High School. Parents can have a strong positive influence on their kids and making sports participation fun again by taking the time to talk about how they are doing. However, you have the obnoxious parents who expect each time their kid plays a sport they have to get the gold medal. Experts say, “It’s one thing for kids to dream of winning an Olympic gold medal or a Super Bowl ring and working towards that goal, but it’s another matter if parents are pushing their kids to do something they don’t want to do forcing them to succeed in a way that’s hurtful.” Parents and coaches who push kids too hard when they are too young, particularly emphasizing winning above all else, can easily wipe out a child’s motivation to play, says Dr. Henry Goitz, chief of sports medicine at the Medical College of Ohio in