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Basketball is a sport widely being played in the Philippines, walking in random streets in different barangays you would see their DIY basketball board and ring. Basketball is being played because it is fun and some use it for exercise but after I researched for my topic, good effects are outnumbered by bad ones. The first article that I have chosen is written by Mike Edger in "How Bully Coaches Affect Athletes," from Sports Psychology Today. Coaches highly affects the way of thinking of a young athletes, and with the experience they're giving the children, it can be carried until they grow up. The coach experience can help the child or make him hate the sport, since they are influential people they should give kids a good experience, but …show more content…

This deflates them and creates a lack of comfort and security in sports," says Mike Edger. Self pity happens, see how the coach affects children. And how would parents detect that this kind of abuse is being done to their kids, when kids are afraid to tell on them. At this point faith in humanity is destroyed, we really can't trust anyone anymore. The second article is written by Erica Beachy in "Specialization in Youth Sport," from The Sport in Mind. The author stated that when a child excels in a certain sport, the parents or scouts would push that kid to play that sport and force his life to revolve around it considering the future that he will have when he pursue professional leagues. With this, kids are highly stressed and pressured. The effects are not only physically but there is also psychological strain. This highly impacts the child and his decision making abilities. "It can be tempting for parents to throw all of their energy into helping their child become “the best they can be.”," says Erica Beachy. Sad to say, that this kind of parents make money out of their children, or maybe their children is their outlet for their frustrations. But yes, there are a lot of people experiencing this right now, being used as puppets by their own parents because of personal

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