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The Youth Sports PARENTSBY: TDH Graham | Category: Entertainment | Submitted: 2011-06-13 10:16:38
You've experienced them. The parents at youth sports events. Youth sports events as in all the way up to high school. The obnoxious, screaming, horn honking, annoying people. They think that their child deserves to start, in spite of him being the worst player on the team. They pressure the coach, and some coaches will bend, and the worst player will start the game. They also think that their child deserves a trophy, even if they finish last. Some argue that it helps children's self esteem. I say that it makes them feel lousy and babied. A consolation trophy for being the worst. They are smart enough to see that. Parents who go to the game, whatever sport, for example: baseball. At a senior league game, for fifteen and sixteen year olds, they are losing by twenty and the parents are still screaming and honking their horns at tevery run their child's losing team gets, and shouting "Rally!" This just accentuates how badly their child's team is doing, not helping their self esteem. The parents think that they are encouraging their child, what they are really doing is making them see how badly they are playing. One of the things about sports, is that it has several main points, no matter the sport. One, is exercise. No one can deny this. Two, is physical ability. This is rather obvious as well. Third, almost as important as physicality, is mentality. Being able to know what to do in certain situations. Fourth, is being gracious, whether as winners, or losers. If you lose, don't be dejected at the end. Look at what you could have done better, and congratulate the other team for winning. But if the parents are telling the losing team how well they did, then the losers won't try to be better. When the parents are telling them that they're perfect, why should they try to improve? They need to know that they were defeated. They need to know what to do to prevent that again. If a player strikes out four times in a single game, it's not "Oh, you were perfect sweetie!", it should be "Why did you strike out four times? Were you just off, was the pitching exceptionally good, is the umpire calling the pitches differently than you are used to?" If it is the umpire, then don't get upset at the umpire, conform to him. If he likes pitches way outside, then just get contact on them. There's nothing else you can do except to hope not to get that umpire again. And also, if the umpire is fair, then it really doesn't matter. Both teams then have the same disadvantage. If the child was off swinging today, figure out why. If it was just great pitching, then the child should work on good pitching like that. If a curve came him trouble, practice hitting it. Really fast speed? Practice working your way up to that level. Improve, don't just tell children: "Oh, you lost by twenty runs. That's better than last time. Last time, it was twenty two." Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: I have experienced such parents a multitudinous amount of times. Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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