After last weeks lecture and discussion about parents involvement
in youth sports I became very interested in this topic. I think that it is
wonderful for parents to be involved in their childrens’ life especially
bringing encouragement through sports, but is there a limit on how much parents
should be involved? With this day and age many parents are consumed in their
own lives trying to get by to get food on the table so any involvement that
parents can take part in I believe is vital. Sometimes though, it seems that
parents get involved for the wrong reasons. I found more information on this
topic on
childrenhttp://www.safekids.org/assets/docs/ourwork/press-releases/fact-sheet-parental.pdf.
On this website it explained
that “there are more than 2.5 million adults who serve as volunteer coaches,
yet less than 10 percent of these individuals have any formal coaching
education.” So then why are these parents getting involved? There are the
obvious reasons such as getting their children involved and staying active, but
I believe sometimes it goes deeper then this. One study found that “32 percent
of children are motivated to participate in sports by their parents’ desire for
them to join a team.”
Is there such thing as too much involvement?
Kristen Van Well
Kin 332i t/th 9:30am
