The author of the text, “Why Parents Should Let Their Kids Play Dangerous Sports” is Jeb Golinkin, and he believes parents need to let their kids play dangerous sports. Golinkin starts off talking about the movie Gladiator, and how for hundreds and possibly thousands of years humans have always been entertained by violence and dangerous sports. It’s basically in our blood to enjoy activities that are dangerous. Golinkin opens by talking about a Winter X-Games participant who ended up coming short to a jump on a snowmobile. The front skis of the snowmobile smacked the beginning of the landing area, causing the rider to flip over the handlebars. When he flipped, so did the snowmobile and it landed on his head and killed him instantly. Golinkin
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You can do very dangerous activities and still be safe as long as you are prepared for the activity you want to do. If you want to learn how to ride a motorcycle, don’t go out on the first day and start taking jumps. When you join a football team they don’t just stick you out on the field! First you run drills and learn the proper way to hit; they teach you to stretch out before games and practices to help avoid injury. Most of the injury’s that happen occur when someone does decide to take a 6 foot jump on a motorcycle after a day or two of practice, or if a kid square’s up with the neighbor boy who weights 100 pounds more than him for some backyard tackle football with no protective gear. What do you think is going to happen?” He has a very great point as well. You can spend hours on Youtube watching people do pretty simple things and end up getting seriously injured because they were clowning around, and that includes organized sports as well. This also lines up with Golinkin’s idea that, basically every sport is dangerous to a certain degree. If parents let the fear of injuries like concussions or broken bones paralyze them, their kid is just going to end up down in the basement playing video games all day because he or she can’t participate in the same sports everyone else does. This has no value to the child because they end up being isolated couch potatoes instead of being out in the real world learning to take a leap out of their comfort zone and exploring life on their
You can do very dangerous activities and still be safe as long as you are prepared for the activity you want to do. If you want to learn how to ride a motorcycle, don’t go out on the first day and start taking jumps. When you join a football team they don’t just stick you out on the field! First you run drills and learn the proper way to hit; they teach you to stretch out before games and practices to help avoid injury. Most of the injury’s that happen occur when someone does decide to take a 6 foot jump on a motorcycle after a day or two of practice, or if a kid square’s up with the neighbor boy who weights 100 pounds more than him for some backyard tackle football with no protective gear. What do you think is going to happen?” He has a very great point as well. You can spend hours on Youtube watching people do pretty simple things and end up getting seriously injured because they were clowning around, and that includes organized sports as well. This also lines up with Golinkin’s idea that, basically every sport is dangerous to a certain degree. If parents let the fear of injuries like concussions or broken bones paralyze them, their kid is just going to end up down in the basement playing video games all day because he or she can’t participate in the same sports everyone else does. This has no value to the child because they end up being isolated couch potatoes instead of being out in the real world learning to take a leap out of their comfort zone and exploring life on their