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.
