Negative Effects of Increased Parental Pressure on Youth Sports
Broken bones, stress fractures, and long lasting negative psychological effects, this results in several side effects that happen when parents become too involved with sports. It is always good for parents to involve themselves in youth sports and to encourage their children and stay supportive but in the extreme cases this can have a negative impact on the child. Increased parental pressure on young athletes has detrimental effects such as increased injuries, emotional distress and more youth quitting sports. In recent years the way parents becoming more involved has become a rising issue. When parents put too much pressure on their child to play a certain sport the child…show more content… Parents who pressure their children to do extra practices or who criticize them have an increased risk of psychological problems and a decrease in performance (Braff). A child was brought to Burnett, a psychologist, because the child had no motivation to participate in any type of activity. This child, a nine year old boy who was on two travel teams, practiced with his team three times a week and on top of that the dad wanted him to hit a ball off of a batting tee 200 times a night to improve his…show more content… This dream is not that unusual among parents; recent polls show that 26 percent of U.S. parents who have children playing high school sports hope that their kids will go pro and the number goes up to 39 percent when the families income in less than 50,000 dollars a year (Kelto). Many parents think that their kids can go pro if they sign them up for a club at a young age because they think this is what the now professional athletes did. In most cases this does turn out to result in the truth. The exceptions are Tiger Woods and Serena Williams but these are two out of millions of professional athletes. This results in negative psychological effects because the kids play for their love of the game and not to become
