The Advantages Of Organizeing Athletic Competition

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I am strongly opposed to the letter （http://www.watchescat.com/）calling for discontinued "organized athletic competition for children under nine," and have got reasons to recommend the opposite.In the first place, I believe getting injuries is an unavoidable or even necessary fact of growing up. Every year, every child — especially those "below the age of nine" — suffers one or several injuries, very often while doing or undoing what is a lot less dangerous than playing softball or soccer. He gets injured while falling off a chair, or walking in the garden, or eating at the table, under your very careful attendance and protection. But you never dream of making up your mind to no longer allow him to get into the chair, or walk in the garden on his own, or come to the table for supper, because you know only too well that it is through these numerous injuries that the child learns to sit properly, to walk carefully, and not to eat fishes bones and all.What about psychological pressures? Again, our children grow up tackling and getting used to pressures from all around. And I think the worst and most ...
... severe are those they suffer at the hands of their parents and teachers concerning their lessons and examinations. These are pressures felt every day by every child, and are much more consequential and harmful than what they suffer in times of lost softball games. And it is because of these pressures that education experts have so often emphasized a balance between the classroom and the playground , between competition in the form of tests and competition as softball games. And one of the best moments when such a balance is reached is when the children start to worry about whether their softball team will win in the next game, because it is evidence that our children are feeling, at the time, less acute the "psychological pressures" from their homework and examinations. And this further indicates that our children have recovered somewhat from those pressures. And it may be evidence that, so much the better, they are ready again for their lessons and tests.From this it follows that time lost in play is time needed to get your child prepared " for academic activities ," not to mention that it is time to exercise his body and sharpen his sense about the collective and collective activities, which is as important for him in the future as his scores are valuable to you now.Thus, except that the "long practice sessions" should fill only children's summer vacations, I don't see a single disadvantage in youth-league softball and soccer games. On the contrary, I find them useful and healthful, and strongly recommend that we continue our " organized athletic competition for children," including those un Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare ... Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned（http://www.watchcopiez.com/）