TWE-130 Some young children spend a great amount of their time practicing sports. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Nowadays young children gain better qualifications and more time to practice sports, due in part to the development of standard of living. Some of them do spend a great amount of their time on sports activities. According to its advantages and disadvantages, whether is good for children to do so is still a controversial issue. As the famous saying goes, every coin has its two sides; I will elaborate the issue as follows.
No doubt,spending children’s time in practicing sports has many advantages, because practicing sports itself has many advantages. Children play sports to keep in shape and improve the state of health. Furthermore, it is obvious that children doing physical exercise usually appear living and high spirits. As far as I consider, the morale can be boosted by participating in sports. Take myself as an example; practicing is fostering me from an effeminate boy to a brave man. And during sports activities, we really have fun, breathing the fresh morning air and feeling the effulgent afternoon sunshine.
Another main advantage is equally crucial that practicing sports, in an empirical manner, teaches young children something that can not learn from books. For example, in order to win, they have to suffer hardship, frustration and pains patiently and envisage the temporary fail. In addition, the teamwork is what I want to mention. The final success depends on every teammate’s exertion. And no individual can exclude and deny others’ effort.
But I do not agree to spend most of children’s time to take sports. First of all, there are other things waiting children to handle, for instance, the schoolwork. Hence, if exercise ties up quite an amount of time, children have to compress their time for other things. I remember that when I was a member of the basketball team of our department, I always had no time left for my daily study. Second, the more you practice, the higher probabilities of injure. Considering this point, I recognize that some gentle exercise is enough for raise young children.
In sum, playing sports is the nature of children and the advantages should not be ignored. But we all see that a person owns a limited energy, even though it can renew. To ordinary young children, not professional athletes, in my opinion, spending a great amount of children’s time involving sports is not sensible. The essence of sports represents in a gradual and long process.
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