Can Everyday Sports be an Everyday Life Lesson? Kids have been playing sports for years, decades, in fact, for 3,000 years. When we hear the word “sports,” we picture running, throwing, jumping, kicking, dodging. Back throughout history and still today, people have always wondered - what is the point of sports? Why do children play sports? Well, sports are not only a fun game for kids, but they serve as life lessons that can help a child not only a success currently but in the future. Although others think that sports for youth have nothing to do with educating children in any way, it is easy to see that sports teach life lessons to kids. To add on, many other people think that sports do teach valuable life lessons too. First of all, it is worth mentioning how sports can help a child, which is boosting their confidence. Furthermore to the discussion, it also teaches a child sportsmanship, which is giving full respect to the coaches, players, and the game. Many parents agree to this statement too, saying that it helped their child get …show more content…
Although this may be true, it’s more accuratly seen to be as a learning-in-progress subject than just any ordinary game with no verifyable meaning to it. Based off the article “Five Lessons Kids can Learn from Sports” “Sports provide so many unique opportunities to teach kids valuable life lessons. Parents, guardians, coaches and friends must work together to ensure young people are fully supported in understanding how to transfer these lessons to school, work and social situations” (Stantec para. 20). With the intention of this sentence, the author meant that sports help children grow with correction communication, integrety, and emotions within school grounds or out in public to help them learn how to live life