Some young children spend a great amount of their time participating in sports…is that so good?

Nowadays, sport has become an activity that many children love practising for a lot of time during the week. In this article the positive and the negative aspects of this issue will be evaluated.

There is no question in my mind that participating in sports is a particularly good thing for young children. It provides them with discipline, strength, self – control and self – esteem. Moreover, sport can be an excellent teaching of fair-play and team spirit which are very useful in relationships with others. In addition, sports activity promotes self – respect , the culture of being always in good form which is the basis of a person’s health.

On the other hand, children who spend a great amount of their time doing sport could risk neglecting their academic duties, by forgetting their homework. Furthermore, children often dream of becoming professional athletes of football superstars like David Beckham, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. They are too young to keep both feet on the ground and , as a consequence, they easily deceive themselves. In order to avoid these unpleasant situations, parents and trainers should make children aware that reaching high goals needs a great deal of talent, many sacrifices and a lot of luck.

To conclude, nobody can argue that sports are not important in children’s physical and psychological growth. Nevertheless, each activity should be practised in the right way, especially when the athletes are very very young. Needles to say the essential role of the active presence of parents and coaches. They have to encourage children to do sport but regulating the hours of training.