Do children get encouraged enough to play sports?

Answer 1

This questions could turn into a matter of opinion, we do not really know how much encouragement is enough. You could force a child to play sports and risk that this child may end up hating sports due to the fact that their whole life they were forced against the own free will to practice sports and to try to be the best they can. On the other hand if we do not try at all to encourage children to play a sport then that could be very harmful to the child. If children do not play sports that takes a lot of exercise away from the child, and sports are one of the main sources of exercise for children. In the community where I live Baseball is a huge sport, not only do we have little league, but we have travel team baseball where you go out of town to play tournaments against other teams. In my town you are encouraged a lot not only by parents, but friends to play and excel at sports. With the rate of obesity in our society today it makes you wonder if our children are getting enough encouragement to play sports, and in a lot of cases they are it is just that the children do not want to play the sports and that sometimes they do not put out the effort to do these things. In conclusion as long as the child is being active in at least one sport, they are enjoying it and playing it at least twice a week and they have a parent or friends support they are being encouraged enough.