'If you include too much competitiveness, what happens is they lose the fun.'
former president of the Psychological Society of Ireland and chartered clinical psychologist Mark Smyth said it is more important to “keep as many children playing for as long as possible at whatever level is right for them.”“When we have young children that get too focused on the result, they forget about what are the individual skills that they learn.”Dr Smyth said the primary reason children engage in sports is “to hang out with friends, to have fun, and to have enjoyment.
2K50KEA Children, sport and winner by girl soccer player on field team sports victory with little champion group. Fitness, training and football practice Dr Smyth said the model used by the GAA is preferable, where “no scores are kept, there's no knockout and there are no finals” until the children are 12-years-old.
“We want you to work on what you can do to improve yourself and not worry about the results because that is going to come in time. “We're seeing many more examples of women's sports on TV, and players and women players being role models, he said.
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