130. Some young children spend a great amount of their time to practice sports. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
These days, some young children spend a great amount of their time practicing sports. This has its own advantages and disadvantages. Children have respectable reasons to enjoy sports because it improves their social skills and helps them keep in shape. However, negative effects of spending too much time on playing sports can be easily ignored, such as exposing to physical damages and neglecting the development of other talents. For that reason, I’m strongly against the idea that children can spend as much time on sports activities as they want.
On one hand, advantages of sports activities in childhood have been proven through decades. First, team playing sports have a pivotal role in fostering children’s social manners, in other words teamwork. It is largely because some group activities such as soccer, foot ball, baseball and basket ball requires various cooperating techniques including passing balls, signs and gestures of their own, and even encouraging each other. Secondly, exercises contribute to improving physical health of children. The rational behind this is children have a valuable opportunity to develop their body functions such as muscles, bones and inner organizations like lungs through various activities including running, throwing, and swimming. To illustrate, a study conducted by Seoul National University Medical School shows that children who have participated in regular practice indicates better features than those who have not, in all examination index such as lung capacity, muscle power, height, and flexibility of spine.
On the other hand, disadvantages of excess exercises are known as a major factor of spoiling children’s life. First, a number of children are exposed to physical damages during exercises due to the poor safeguard and tiredness and lack of concentration. Thus lots of young student lose their physical completeness and then psychological confidence. Moreover, hard training for big matches usually deprive young children of their valuable time to develop other possibilities in various field such as art, literature and science. Therefore, when they decide to stop being trained to change to another field, it is usually too late to catch up with other friends. For example, when I was 6th grade, a friend of mine hurt his wrist and stopped tennis that he had exercised for years with a goal of winning a gold medal in national match. At that time he quit, he was at a loss about what to do first and how to catch up with all the classes. After all, he could enter a university 3 years after other friends after a severe study.
In conclusion, disadvantages of excessive practice of sports far outweigh advantages. Mental health and good physicals shape can be obtained by proper regular exercise not by a great amount of time of practice. What is more important for children is to have as much opportunity as possible to develop their talents through various experiences.