Kids should be involved with sports because it prevents obesity. In The New York Times article,” …show more content…
Once kids have been through a year or two in sports, they start to forget the pressure and remember the fun. There may be those times when you are at your basketball game, the score is tied and now you have to take the free throw to win the game. Some kids may feel the pressure, a lot. Others may just shoot like it’s nothing. That is because they are used to the pressure. When you are on a competitive sports team, you get used to pressure. Then once you are used to the pressure, then you can start to have more fun. Lastly, children should be on a competitive sports team because you learn how to work as a unity and and social skills. In the article “Why I Don’t Want my Kids to Play Team Sports,’’ Jeff Pearlman states ,” When the game ended, we’d all go out to the neighborhood bar to talk and eat and drink the night away.” Once you join a team, you start to make friends. These