Some Youth Sports Are Too Intense

Some Youth Sports Are Too Intense As parents start to think about the sports their children can play, they often times do not think about the lifelong effects of ongoing sports. Even though sports are a great way for children to become social and active, there are many risks and things parents have to consider. Whatever happens to children at a young age is the base of their future. Whether it is school, sports, or injuries, each small aspect of childhood can affect your whole life in many ways. Playing sports starting at a young age can leave you with expenses to pay off, dealing with emotional stress, and even brain injury. One thing that youth sports can produce is high costs. These costs are not only expensive, but some of them can be …show more content…
A lot of that stress comes from the coaches and the harsh things they say or make the children do for punishment. There are a bunch of times that a child will then go to their parents to receive the same yelling and anger from them, that they just got from their coach. “Coaches are allowed to be emotionally illiterate,” Mr. Amaechi said. “I’ve watched as a coach stood screaming inches from the face of a girl and the parents were in the stands and instead of being incensed they continued screaming at her when she came to them.” (Sullivan). This type of coaching does not motivate the players, instead it can leave them stressing, wondering why they are not good enough to play. If children are brought attention in a bad way, their skills will not improve. Instead they will end up showing anger in another way. This type of yelling abuse would not be tolerated in any other classroom situation. The problem with many coaches is not only the way they speak to the children, but the fact that they are not qualified. “The biggest challenge of youth sports in this country is so many of the adults who propagated the culture, have no background in child development or physical education,” Mr. Bigelow says, who played for the Boston Celtics and Clippers. “Their background is they played high school sports somewhere and they watch ESPN.” (Sullivan). Getting coaching skills from experience or things people see, do not make them …show more content…
Traumatic injury to the immature brain results in a prolonged period of pathogenesis in both cortical and subcortical structure, leading to progressive neurodegeneration hyperactivity, and sustained cognitive impairments (Daneshvar). With each hit and trauma to the head, it can immeasurably affect a child’s brain in many ways. Interruptions in their brains growth can lead to lifelong cognitive impairment problems. Some parts of your brain do not even fully develop until your late teen years. You do not want any physical activity to end up damaging, and or interrupting your growth process leaving you with a non-fully developed