Why should kids participate in sports if it is not for winning the championship and winning sports stars? According to Peter Baston, the answer is simple. They have a good time.
According to the 2010 New York Times article, Baston was a tenth grade at Fairfield College preparatory school and investigated young athletes in Darien, Connecticut in order to find out why they participated in sports. Baston's survey shows 11 reasons for elementary school fourth graders and children under four years to participate in sports. Regardless of the respondent's age, sex and sports choice, the best answer is to have fun.
"This shows that children are far from their lives and have a good time with their friends," says Baston, the second baseball man in the entertainment league. "They are not there to win."
This idea was discovered after Baston's father, Mike, knew that he played a fun game in a study of young athletes at Michigan State University in 1989. Baston wants to know if the motive has changed
When the Times published the article, Baston discussed about about 255 members of the Darien Youth Football League and about 500 boys and girls from Darien Y.M.C.A. Basketball league. He later investigated youth baseball players and softball players. The result is the same
Gayvisinski, director of Darien Youth Football League, says: "That is not to win in the 4th grade but to succeed in life."
Children playing sports are fun and may sound simple. However, the definition of "fun" for children is quite different from that of adults. Researchers actually asked young players about their concern about the youth movement and found 81 reasons. Most young athletes report that social interactions and access to behavior move the pleasant scale in the right direction. The most interesting aspects of youth sports are as follows. Award medals and winning medals are one of the lower level youth sports which athletes feel interesting. According to the survey, the athlete realized that he was more interested in simply playing sports than actually winning the game. Indeed, among female athletes, further reduction in victory makes sports interesting.
In the current estimate, approximately 35 million young people aged 5 to 18 participate in organized sports every year. Most of these young athletes are sports and entertainment sports, but more and more young players are trained to improve their opportunities in sports. The elite movement was a young player for a long time (a 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci (1976 Olympic gold medalist), a 13-year old Marjorie Gestring (1936 Olympic gold medalist), and a 10-year old Dimitrios Loundras (1896) Olympics Bronze Award Winners) The number of young athletes' young athletes has increased over the past few decades. Such expansion is seen not only in elite athletes but also in establishing many facilities specializing in specialized training on sports performance, including young athletes.
Most coaches and parents have entered youth sports and have not received psychological training to educate children and children. Still, in order to never notice that you are seeing professional sports, seeing young people wearing professional style uniforms, and comparing professional sports and youth sports with apples, how to handle young athletes There are too many adults who think they know. And zucchini. Professional sports consists of thousands of adult athletes that have been scrutinized nationwide and have been successful in many years of competition, while the youth league is home to millions of regional communities . Services for children with age and ability