Parents of Youth Sports When it comes to youth sports and parents, things can get out of hand. “The tightrope that parents of sporting prodigies have to walk between encouraging their child to fulfill their potential and pushing them too far – possibly to the brink of damaging their mental or physical health” (Garner, 2010). Pushing children into a sport or sports that they do not want to compete in, or spending large amounts of money and time to make them the athlete the parent never was, is part of the problem with sports parents today. Parents of youth sports today may be taking it too far when it comes to their child playing sports and may be losing focus on what counts. When it comes to parents of youth sports, they can start out with the best intentions in mind, but can result in not finishing with the same intentions.
Spanking is Not an Effective Form of Discipline Com/156 August 21st, 2010 Jill Hughes Spanking is Not an Effective Form of Discipline There are many forms of discipline out there, and there are many opinions on these things. Even though Spanking is not an effective form of discipline seen by some people, there are other forms of discipline, because there is a difference between beating and spanking a child and time outs, toy removals, and canceled allowances can work instead. A little spanking does not hurt anything, but the other discipline options should be used first before any physical disciplines take affect. There are differences between beating and spanking a child. Beating is defined as whipping or thrashing in punishment or an act of repeated hitting or striking (Farlex, 2010).
There is a difference, however, between punching your child in the face, and spanking him on the bottom when he is misbehaving. Unfortunately, some parents take smacking and spanking their children too far. Some parents use physical discipline to the point where the child is receiving bruises or starts bleeding. Banning the spanking of children will not solve the real abusive cases. People who abuse their children will not stop just because it is illegal(1, Selwyn Duke , The New American).
Introduction Many parents or adults try to push their dreams of being a professional athlete onto their children. In today’s society it is alleged that success is accomplished through hard work and dedication, but pushing one too far is not the way to achieve such success. The effects of pushing one into doing something can be very harmful and cause many problems throughout their lives. There are many negatives to over achieving and trying to make your child or members of the team the best out there. Pushing one too far can cause overuse injuries that can hinder their playing and lives.
Spanking may stop the child then and there, but there’s a cost emotionally and cognitively to a child, and over the long run, it doesn’t usually lead to the child learning not to repeat the behavior that resulted in the spanking in the first place. It can also lead to the child learning to behave because of fear, not because of respect. (Cantu) Spanking a child results in them being afraid, and that hitting is the way you handle conflict. Instead, send a message to your child such as, “I love you and I can’t let you do that.” Children can learn best by mimicking their parents’ ability to control themselves, and parents can be models by using calm, firm and neutral discipline” (Cantu). Spanking is a form of abuse that people tend to turn a blind eye to.
Most children participating in the games are competing in a fair way. It wouldn’t be fair to the kids that aren’t using drugs, such as steroids for example, because they are trying to play against children that are stronger than them due to taking unhealthy substances. How would you like it if you worked out everyday to build muscle, and you had to compete against someone that’s puts powder into a bottle of water to get their muscle? It’s not supposed to be the way teens play sports. The tests would give the scare to kids, so they start to work on getting better without taking the easy
Because we are only human, we tend to make mistakes more often than not, and because we make those mistakes, it is hardly impossible to argue that humans are good. From a very young age, our parents work hard to teach us to share our toys and to play nice with our peers, but what some don’t realize is that if our parents weren’t around to teach us that, we would never learn, and eventually grow up to be unapologetically bad. This is because it is part of human nature to keep the best for ourselves, and to keep others away from what we feel is ours. Humans are not born with the ability to want to automatically share what is theirs, and this only adds to my point of view that much more. Cabrales 2 The only reason that the world is able to function correctly, the way it has for an extremely long time, is because of the laws that have come to surface in order to keep us in line.
Fear of confrontation with resourceful parents overwhelms their desire of alerting child neglect. As a result children may continue to live in negligent despite public knowledge. Children with disabilities have in general a larger risk of being abused (predators seek out the weakest). Knowing this, both families and teachers have a very low threshold for alerting Child welfare. The situation may improve if the issue of children’s welfare were put on the agenda, in media as well as in school.
A common question among parents, doctors, coaches, and athletes is whether competitive sports might be unhealthy, sometimes causing premature injuries. This question is a very good question because in some ways it can be good for a person, while in other it can be very detrimental. Some sports can help one become healthier in life while others can actually make one have a shorter life span. The dilemma is, competitive sports have injured, paralyzed, and even caused many deaths. Many kids today look to sports as a way to stay out of trouble.
This method is wrong because it had bad consequences. Parents can use the correct method of education when the child baby. Many parents never learned from their own childhood that there are positive ways of relating to children. For example when punishment does not accomplish the desired goals, and if the parent is unaware of alternative methods, punishment can escalate to more frequent and dangerous actions against the child. Parents believe that beating is a means of discipline and kind of education.