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Some people think competition in sports of children is important to improve children's diverse abilities. However, in my opinion, to play sports game in childhood is only for fun because excessive competition between children makes them get hurt and competition makes loosing children feel discouraged and inferiority.
To begin with, children can be hurt through competition. One of purposes to play sports is to be healthy and fun. However, fierce competition makes children excited. Excited children can be hurt. To be hurt from sports is bad result of excessive competition. For example, when I was in middle school, athletic competition was held. The gift and award were ready for winner. However, students were so excited that many injured students occurred. Since then, the athletic competition was displaced.
On top of that, looser of sports can be discouraged. Actually, there are advantages of competition. To do one's best and to try hard is one of the advantages. However, in society that enforces kids to compete with each other, they could have feeling of inferiority if they lose game. Some studies have shown that children raised in society that encourages competition are inclined to show self lack of confidence and criticize themselves.
To sum up, real purpose of sports are fade away by competition and competitive sports have bad effect on children. In this regard, sports game should be played for fun in childhood. |