Disabled sports

The social construct of youth and high school sports leads to unrealistic expectations on the athlete, parents should never push a child to participate more than they are comfortable because it can lead to depression, physical injury, and sports burnout. Many children starting from a young age are pushed by their parents to participate in sports. According to Shugart (2011), obesity is not as large as an epidemic as the media portrays to the public, and is in fact the latest obesity analysis…

1. Choose an age group to focus on for this assignment, i.e., toddlers (2-4 yrs), children (5-11 yrs), adolescents (12-17 yrs), young adults (18-25 yrs), adults (26-64 yrs), or older adults (65+ yrs). What are the physical activity recommendations for this population? For my assignment, I decided to look at the Children 5-11-year age group. It is recommended for this age group to get at least 60 minutes of daily exercise (Kolen, 2016). It is also recommended that 3 days include vigorous…

through sports, however that just did not happen. My childhood was filled with trying practically every sport and I just could not find my passion in any of them. The variety of sports that I tried and failed to commit to allowed me to realize qualities about myself that made it easier to manage them when I was growing up. Through sports I discovered that I am indecisive, uncoordinated and fragile. For most people, sports made working with others and managing time easier, but with as many…

Do you think youth sports should be banned or restricted? don't think that youth sports should be banned or restricted because kids should be able to be able to play a sport when ever they want and they should feel free to playing sports on a team.Kids should be able to play sports because, It keeps them healthy and active and it gives kids a motivation to get higher grades in school and sports teach kids life lessons. My first reason why kids should be able to play sports is It keeps them…

1985). When discussing aggression in sports fans, psychologists focused on the basics of aggression. Basic aggresion theories helped explain fan aggresion, but they did not encompass the phenomenon as a whole. The inclusion of Self-Categorization and Social Identity Theory, helped psychologists to understand what motivted fans to make certain decisions (Branscombe & Wann, 1992). These ideas affect group polarization as a whole and are not exclusive to sports fans and can affect any type of…

Summary In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” Jessica Statsky tells about the harm that sports cause and how much the children are expected to show up. They are asked to perform much higher than their physical capacity. This causes severe mental issues. It always remains there, the expectations their parents have from them and also the stress or pressure they get from the fellow teammates. Statsky further says how much she dislikes this behavior of parents and the coaches towards the children…

champions, future college athletes, and dedicated players, but we were still girls. We were weaker, and the boys that we called our friends still loved to put us down for it. Not a single one of those boys went on to participate in any sort of college sport,…

about how competitive youth sports are beneficial. Although they are still pretty expensive. Although they are still a good choice to sign up your child in. For example, it will get them some confidence, and can get their head in the field of ‘making friends.’ Most kids don’t have too much confidence, or even don’t have the time to play competitive sports, and if more people joined, then even more would join and more-and so on. So, another reason that competitive sports is beneficial is that…

A discourse community is a group of people with the same goals and purposes and its own form of communication. According to Swales there are six characteristics of a discourse community which include the members, goals, forms of communication, specialized language, and how to become an expert. Soccer is both fun to play and fun to watch that includes teamwork, techniques, and speed. Soccer has a large, diverse community both being the fans and the players. The purpose of this paper is to take a…

Can sports ends conflict and bring peace to the world? From then until now, sports is an activity which people or teams compete against each other. Sports bring health and joy to people around the globe. Also, its brings people closer toghether, Its amazing to play or watch a football match with friends and family in a weekend night. So also healing conflicts between people, two person could easily put their divergent and differences and become friend if they both idolize a team or an athelete.…