Sports Side Effect

Being the star quarterback of one of the top schools with the best football teams, you would think life is pretty amazing. When most people think of football players, they think of them living the life, having fun, and going to parties. In all reality being a football player, the star of the team and the son of the coach, is much more than just amazing. The big game is coming up, Dad, or should I say coach, have been pushing the team really hard and pushing me twice as hard. Sometimes I hate my dad for being the coach and making me live the dream that he was never able to achieve. I don’t want to tell him that i don’t want this because i know how much he wants this for me. All I want is to be a normal high school kid. Sometimes I just want …show more content…
Some parents also push their children in sports because they never got the chance to achieve their personal goals. Mistakes happen all the time and parents may not notice how they are abusing their children when they push them into sports and it can cause numerous of negative effects on their child's physical, mental and emotional well being. There are plenty of negative effects that can occur to a child due to their parents pushing them into sports, but the main effects are stress, resentment towards the parents, and injuries.
Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain of tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. Stress can be easily activated within a child when their parents force them into sports because they begin to worry about pleasing their parents and how their parents will react if they lose or do something wrong. In the article “Negative Effects of Parents that Push Their Children Into Sports” by Baldwin Ellis, Ellis gave information about what can be the matrix of stress in a child from their parents pushing them in sports, he stated “The emotional investment clouds judgment and blind parents from seeing