Children playing team sports learn life skills. Do you agree or disagree.

Children playing team sports learn life skills. Do you agree or disagree.

Tutoring young minds about diverse spheres of life is an arduous task, but as per a few,  some burden can be eased by encouraging them to participate in team sports. There are, however, voices of disapproval over this issue.

Undeniably, participation in sporting disciplines that need whole team to play together can help drive in rich benefits for the growing minds: they learn an extremely critical lesson about social behavior when they interact with their team mates and learn to comprehend their personalities and words, and also reciprocating. Another very important personality trait fostered  through such activities is the spirit of team work and bearing the collective responsibility. Both these skills can prove to be pivotal in their success as adults, both in the professional and personal realms. 

Moreover, youngsters undertaking sports as team players  obtain crucial learning about emotionally supporting and inspiring each other; helping co-players bounce back from bad performances. This can prove to be invaluable for young individuals since as they grow up,  they inculcate empathy towards others, rather than remaining apathetic and self centered. On top of that, it is the team sports that carves out successful leaders and also those who follow orders.

However, there are those who out rightly reject the notion of team sports coaching children about practical life skills. Sporting activity in any manifestation, is a noisy way of exerting oneself and burning calories, and nothing more than that. This lobby proposes that young minds despite being inquisitive rarely absorb any knowledge unless it is transferred to them in the form of instructions.

In hindsight, controversies apart, team sports is considered to be laden with several benefits for the juveniles: they can grab essential skills that can help them grow as successful individuals empathetic to the society.