Sports: Parents View Regarding Sports

By: Jason Petrina




Some parents may have dreams of their kids set on either performing in the Olympics or even professional sports. How should parents get their kids started in sports? There are many factors parents must keep in mind to make sports enjoyable and fun to their kids. First parents must know spots can become very stressful causing kids to usually shy away from them when they are no longer having a good time. But you can easily make sports such as baseball, basketball and hockey an enjoyable experience for your kids. By making sure you do not put too much pressure on them, or else they will hate the sport they are playing in the end ultimately hating sports all together.

Parents must know when their kids are ready to start playing sports. The big misconceptions most parents have are that it is best to start their kids off in sports as early as possible. Serious injuries maybe caused if kids starts playing sports way to soon. Kids must be emotionally, mentally and physically ready before parents should think about getting them started in competitive sports. Children must be emotionally ready to accept losing as part of the game and should not be upset when it happens. When they are emotionally not ready they will resort to throwing temper tantrums and start to shy away from the sport. Mentality-wise they must be capable of learning the basis of the sport and know what the rules are. In the end they must be taught how to do the physical attributes of the sport such as kicking a ball if they are to play soccer. This can usually be taught through parents’ guidance.

To make sure your children will enjoy the experience of playing sports you must first be able to identify what sports they want to play. This is the number one factor that must be taken into consideration, since if they do not have any interest in them they will not be having a good time or performing well. The worst thing to do is to choose the sports for your kids because of what you wanted them to play. But for most kids they are generally not familiar with any sports to know what they like. This can be solved easily by enrolling your kids into sport camps, which most of the time at their age will have kids play a variety of sports to let them try them out. With a better knowledge of the sports out there your kids should have a general idea what sports he or she will have an interest in.

Parents should be careful in what type of sports program they sign their kids up for. There are a variety of programs out there for sports; some may just be a get together of kids practicing the basic skills all the way to competitive programs. Recreational centers may have programs that will teach your kids good sportsmanship and basic skills to the game which would be ideal to start your kids out with. If your kids want to start playing the sport a bit more serious then house league programs will provide the thrills of competitive play. For parents they should really find out what the mission of the programs are and if they fit the principles they wish their kids will be participating at.

As a parent you should not put too much pressure on your kids about winning. That is not part of what playing sports is all about, and it is definitely not what you wish to teach you kids. If you were to put a great deal of emphasis in winning and losing on your kids, they will begin to feel that you will only love them when they are winners and not tolerate with losers. In the end only destroying the love of the sport for your kids. Another mistake most parents make is assuming the role of a coach when they really should be there cheering their kids and the team on as fans.

Often parents are not the one that gets carried away with sports but the kids themselves. Kids are not able to control their intensity like older people; hence usually they will be overly aggressively putting the rest of the kids in danger. When this happens as a parent you should talk to your kids about playing overly aggressive is bad. Main focus of playing sports should be to learn new skills and practice on ones you already have, winning is important but losing is not the end of the world. Attitudes and behaviors learnt from playing sports will be carried over to their day to day life, and it is important to make sure your kids stay positive no matter what. In the end it is only a game, that is what sports is all about.



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