I Want My Kids To Play Team Sports Summary

In “Why are you don’t want my kids to play team sports” Jeff Pearlman (2013) argues that children shouldn’t play team sport because these activities are not good for their personalities and very harmful for their self-confidence. Pearlman (2013) provided a story of how his brother had a very hard time in playing organized team sports and how all that had a very bad impact on him. (Para.3) Additionally, to support his main argument he provided his own experience telling of the negative effects of team sports in his life. Although, Pearlman (2013) used a good argument to support his point of view, I disagreed with this claim that team sports don’t do any good to kids.
First, the author’s examples and evidences are affective and adequate to support his point of view about the outcome of organized team activities on kids. Pearlman (2013). He presented his brother’s soccer team’s example to prove that these kinds of experience and memories not only disturbed his brother but also him. He
Pearlman (2013). The brain development at a young age such as six to eleven years is accelerated and most of the learning takes place through group plays experience (amle.org). Therefore, organize activities that include socializing with other people of same age and interest is good for kids’ both physical and mental health. For example, my sister played in a volleyball team for almost five years. He was only nine years old and a very introverted person when she first started. She had a hard time is socializing mostly because of language problems. But, participating in sports teams and spending more time in people with same interest and skills change the way she sees the world I’m definitely made it easier to socialize and show her best to the world, Because I witnessed my sister’s positive experience, I do not agree with Pearlman (2013)