Parents Wants the Best for Their Children

Parents Wants the Best for Their Children

Many parents want their kids to be the best at everything, especially sports. But are kids pushed too hard, to the point where competing is no longer an interest? As a parent, maybe one loves softball, soccer or football. Most of the time whatever sport the parents grew to love, it is only their wish for their kids to do the same. Once a child turns a certain an age, trying out different sports and interests is only normal. Through all this, the child will develop a specific interest in one or maybe two sports. This is when the role of parents begins to take over control. At this point parents usually begin to play an overly active role in how well and how often a child will play. In an attempt to live vicariously through their children, parents do not realize the pressure being put on them. It seems too obvious to miss. Parents must see what they are creating, children who are left feeling berated, humiliated, or sometimes just plain useless. All too often a child is thrown into an uncomfortable situation because of their parents desires. The son who would rather be studying music or theater rather than fighting on the field, or the daughter who wants to work on art, rather than spend hours practicing a backhand, suffers from these parental demands. Others get the retaliation of their parents' actions when they are ridiculed and taunted by quantizes, peers and friends. Keeping track of diet and exercise, emphasizing on practice, practice and more practice, screaming from the sidelines, making kids play injured; and punishment for losing a game are all examples of the most common instances when parents go the extra two steps too far. It seems as though parents these days are pushing their kids too hard. Parents either do not know how to let their kids be and learn for themselves or, are trying to live their lives with their passions through the lives of their kids. When focus on the “game” is lost when, winning is everything, and children are no longer having...

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