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The Benefits of Youth Sports
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When kids are asked why they play sports, here's what they say:
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To
have fun
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To
[0] _____ their skills
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To
learn new skills
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To
be with their friends
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To
make new friends
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succeed or win
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become physically [1] _____
Kids
usually [2] _____ the benefits they seek from sports and more. Kids need
attention and respect (in that order), but they have [3] _____ ways to get
them. [4] _____ is unique about sports is that they offer kids an arena where
they can earn attention and respect by exerting their natural abilities. Kids
are good [5] _____ sports because sports are essentially about speed, strength,
coordination, vision, creativity, and responsiveness-the necessary physical
attributes are the attributes of [6] _____.
Given
that athletics [7] _____ all aspects of the human being, it is not surprising
that participants benefit in all of the areas they mention. [8] _____ to
researchers at the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports at Michigan State
University, kids [9] _____ participate in organized sports do better in school,
have better interpersonal skills, are [10] _____ team oriented, and are
generally healthier.
Participation
in sports provides opportunities for [11] _____ and socialization, as well as
the development of skills for handling success and failure.
[12]
_____, when playing games, children learn how rules work. They see how groups
need rules to keep order, that the individual [13] _____ accept the rules for
the good of the group, that rules entail a consideration of the rights of [14]
_____. They also learn about competition, but within a restricted and safe
system where the consequences of losing are minimized.
Benefits
for girls have been of particular interest to researchers. The President's
Council on Physical Fitness and Sports [15] _____ many developmental benefits
of participating in youth sports for girls, [16] _____ increased self-esteem
and self-confidence, healthier body image, significant experiences of
competency and success, as well as reduced risk of chronic disease.
Furthermore, female athletes "do better academically and have [17] _____ school
dropout rates than their nonathletic counterparts."
The
Women's Sports Foundation lists many ways that sports specifically benefit
female athletes. These include their being [18] _____ likely to become pregnant
as teenagers and to begin smoking, more likely to quit smoking, to do well in
science, and to graduate from high school and college than female nonathletes.
Female athletes also [19] _____ greater pride in their physical and social
selves than their sedentary peers; they are more active physically as they age;
they suffer less depression. There is also some evidence that recreational
physical activity [20] _____ a woman's chances of developing breast cancer and
helps prevent osteoporosis.
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