As parents, we teach our children that they can be whatever they want to be. However, some overzealous parents are, or are about to, view their child as a financial investment that should earn a good return.

In case you are thinking of enrolling your child in a sports activity, this is the first thing you should ask yourself:

1. Are our family priorities in order?
2. Will my child have fun?
3. Does this game meet my child’s needs?
4. Is this sport more important to me or my child?
5. What is my child learning from this experience?

Is there a way to get a similar experience in a less expensive way?

Once all the answers are yes, you can continue. This is how your investment will pay off

1. Watch your child grow

Sports training demands good money and adds a lot of chaos to their lives. However, Youth Sports is a great tool to educate children about sports and life.
Let your son go, give him that experience and watch him grow into an independent human being, mentally and physically. Your child will thank you.

You don’t have to be at every practice and game! This doesn’t make him a bad father, it just makes him a great one who has thrown his child into the game.

2.Teamwork and discipline

Fighting for a common goal teaches you how to build collective team synergy and effectively communicate the best way to solve problems on the path to victory. Sports make your child realize that the values ​​and discipline needed to succeed as a team in a game are the same as in life.

This instills a discipline in him to do the things he doesn’t want to do so he can do the things he really wants to do. Once they get that idea into their heads, that they will have to pay the price for the little things in order to get bigger things in life, you can see them transform.

3. Eliminate the fear of failure

The short-term emphasis on results can make an individual more competitive today, but it also sets him up for failure in the future. Sport is a place to win and lose, but above all to learn and develop. That’s not just as an athlete, but as a human being.

Children don’t mind winning and losing. We must not take away that opportunity to learn.

4. Teach them to win

Children need autonomy, enjoyment, and intrinsic motivation for any long-term achievement.

People today feel that a game can be fun or competitive. If you remove any of these, you set your child up for failure.

Think about it, if you enjoy something, you will do it more. Make something as important as physical activity fun for your child and they’ll never want to stop doing it.

In summary, there are five ‘C’s that are critical components of the positive development of competence, trust, connections, character, and nurturing youth. A growing body of research literature has found that sports enrich all of the above in your child, as well as improve physical health in a child.

The discipline of training, teamwork, following the coaches’ lead and learning to lose are some of the skills your child would acquire for a lifetime as an athlete. These would play a mainly positive role in their development as responsible adults with better academic achievement, higher self-esteem and fewer behavior problems.