Youth sports help kids grow mentally and physically. As a child learning to deal with losing, working harder to win, and listening to coaches are very important skill sets that will start them down the right path. Naturally, kids are competitive and they will need to learn how to work as a team on and off the field. These team building skills will be used in real world situations that will help them down the road. The kids that are the most competitive on the field are usually the kids who work the hardest in the class. Before kids turn 10, there is a direct correlation between the best young athlete and the best reader in the class. By looking at the way kids work on the field, we will receive a preview of how the young athletes are in a class room setting.
The article starts with the study of how hard some coaches are on young kids and the effect it has on these young athletes. Some of these adults act like generals in the army and actually belittle these 10 year old children. Smith stated that kids with harder coaches react negatively to these coaches strict coaches, most end up quitting because they are afraid of what the coach might do after they fail. Next, the article goes into detail about how these coaches changes the behavior of the athletes. Last, Smith compares how students who work hard on the field and how they work off the field (in the class room) and how these are stepping stones to a successful career after school.
In all sports emotions are shown, everyone who has ever watched the Super Bowl has seen a grown man shed tears after being so close to winning the championship. Every one has heard the term there is no crying in baseball and this article will research how children's emotion is effect on the field and then related to how the act at home and in school. There are over 20 million kids between the age of 6-18 who play a sport at any level (little league, “Travel Ball”, showcase teams), so researchers look at the roles of aggression, motivation, risk taking, and cooperation effect how the way the kids act on the playing field, at home, and in the classroom.
In the research Gould and Weiss analyzed the way kids are on the field and compare it to off the field. “Behavioral Assessment Systems” has been created to measure the ways kids act on the field compared to “non competitive situation.” Gould and Weiss has also done research into the way act when trying young athletes improve in their sport, and how their performance behavior improves drastically and how it effects how much harder they are willing to work to keep getting better.
As an athlete on the baseball team I have had coaches that ran a boot camp and I hated the way practice was ran and I was not enjoying what I was doing. Usually I would take this mood that I had on the field and take if off field and into the classroom. The mood I had on the field effected way I did everything. So I chose this article to see if how kids did on the field with the coaches and teammates they had and compared it to my experiences.
"Sign In — Behav Modif." Behavior Modification. Web. 02 Nov. 2010.
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