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It is true, we all agree that sports is good for an all round development of kids, but are competitive sports good? A recent research as reported by ABC news suggests that as many as 4 in 10 emergency room visits for children between age 5-14 are for sports related injuries. This is a very telling statistics and it needs immediate attention. Not only are the kids getting injured, they are getting stressed and are losing out on their childhood when pushed into competitive sports. Competitive sports can be really bad for children and here are some negative reasons and the answer to why most kids are quitting sports nowadays
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Kids who quit competitive sports tend to say that they quit because “it isn’t fun anymore.” This in my opinion …show more content…
This is an invalid fact because even with sports like swimming and golf, kids can still get hurt badly. In the article “How to Navigate Today’s World Wide of Competitive Sports” a father tells the story of his son who injured his arm severely and had to give up pitching. Dr.Ann Marie
Gallo, a professor of physical education at Salem State University, says that if kids continue training excessively they are at risk for chronic overuse injuries. This means if kids tend to specialize in one sport too early, many terrible injuries can happen to them and their future could be affected. This is reinforced in the article “Listening to Wisdom from a 10-Year-Old Son About His Head Injury”, where a kid told his father that he did not want to play tackle football anymore due to the serious concussions that he could get. Well, the boy, had read Troy Aikman’s account of being unable to remember a Super
Bowl victory due to a serious heat-to-head collision that made him lose his memory. Another famous football player by the name of Steve Young had retired because of concussions. According to the
It is true, we all agree that sports is good for an all round development of kids, but are competitive sports good? A recent research as reported by ABC news suggests that as many as 4 in 10 emergency room visits for children between age 5-14 are for sports related injuries. This is a very telling statistics and it needs immediate attention. Not only are the kids getting injured, they are getting stressed and are losing out on their childhood when pushed into competitive sports. Competitive sports can be really bad for children and here are some negative reasons and the answer to why most kids are quitting sports nowadays
Body Paragraph #1:
Kids who quit competitive sports tend to say that they quit because “it isn’t fun anymore.” This in my opinion …show more content…
This is an invalid fact because even with sports like swimming and golf, kids can still get hurt badly. In the article “How to Navigate Today’s World Wide of Competitive Sports” a father tells the story of his son who injured his arm severely and had to give up pitching. Dr.Ann Marie
Gallo, a professor of physical education at Salem State University, says that if kids continue training excessively they are at risk for chronic overuse injuries. This means if kids tend to specialize in one sport too early, many terrible injuries can happen to them and their future could be affected. This is reinforced in the article “Listening to Wisdom from a 10-Year-Old Son About His Head Injury”, where a kid told his father that he did not want to play tackle football anymore due to the serious concussions that he could get. Well, the boy, had read Troy Aikman’s account of being unable to remember a Super
Bowl victory due to a serious heat-to-head collision that made him lose his memory. Another famous football player by the name of Steve Young had retired because of concussions. According to the