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Kalea Ibarra

Ms.Marlowe

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11 December 2017

Works Cited

Allison, David. "Why Track and Field Is Good Supplement to Any Sport." ​Ahwatwee​, 16

Dec. 2013,

www.ahwatukee.com/columns/health_advice/article_37e7b846-665f-11e3-9009-001a

4bcf887a.html.​ Accessed 2 Dec. 2017.

In this article, Allison goes over the benefits to all sports by just joining track. From

sprints to distance, track can be a great sport to do as a full time or off season sport.

The foundation of every sport is the endurance and ability to play an entire game and

whether you do sprints or distance your game in any other sports will improve from

your footwork speed to the ability to push harder the entire game. With this evidence

starting a track meet at an elementary school is not only a great way to introduce kids

to sports but also give them a great background of endurance and speed to take into

their other sports in the future. It makes a track meet versus any other sport and ideal

pic to start kids young on and unlike other sports it also adds a variety of events for

kids to pick their favorites.

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Braff, Danielle. "Awarding Kids for Participation Isn’t Best Way to Build Confidence."

Chigaco Tribute​, 28 Oct. 2016,

www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/parenting/sc-children-confidence-family-1101-20

161028-story.html.​ Accessed 1 Dec. 2017.

In this article, Braff further explains why giving everyone awards isn't as helpful as

people may believe.Through others opinions such as Jessica Lahey, author of “the gift

of failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go Their Children Can succeed” Braff

explains how “handholding” your child does no good in the long run. Instead parents

should learn to allow their kids to fail in order to grow. Parents should not reward

their children for failing but much rather teach then how to handle the failure in a

positive way.This information can be applied to my award aspect of restarting the

elementary track meet. As a younger kid it always was made clear everyone should

receive awards in day events such as these yet I am a firm believer even at the young

age,elementary kids, they must learn in a scenario not worth very much for their

futures that you will not always win.I believe that you should not reward every kid

who participates a trophy; which is why only 1st-3rd place should be rewarded

similar to the real sports world.

Gavin, Mary L. "Signing Kids up for Sports." ​KidsHealth.org​, Sept. 2016,

www.kidshealth.org/en/parents/signing-sports.html#.​ Accessed 1 Dec. 2017.

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In the article,not only the benefits but also the average age on which children should

be started are explained.King health provides different alternatives and links on not

only what you should do before you have your kids start sports around the age of 6

or 7 but how to choose what type of sport would be the right fit for you child. The

article then continues to go on about the factors of how hard you should push your

kid into liking a sports and when too much is pushing the line.This information

supports my capstone idea from the approval aspect of doing the track meet at a

elementary. The main concern of starting one with the younger kids is that they

would not only not be able to comprehend the rules but whether it was too early to

add a little bit of competition but according to this article even the youngest grade

level offered, kindergarten where most kids are 5-6, would be at the prime age to

start participating in sports.

Lynch, Grace Hwang. "Should You Give Kids Rewards?" ​PBS Parents​,

www.pbs.org/parents/special/article-finance-should-you-give-kids-rewards.html.

Accessed 29 Nov. 2017.

In this article, Lynch further dives into whether rewards should be given to kids at

all. After looking at both sides of the argument Lynch seems to believe that rewards

are a great idea if done with the right approach.With giving kids realistic, specific

goals in order to recieve rewards, the negative aspect of nagging and lack of self
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motivation to work harder when things get tough is avoided.By monitoring how your

kid expects and receives awards, rewards are seen as a positive if your child puts the

work in to earn it.This supports my idea of adding rewards for the 1st-3rd place

winners, simulating a real sports competition. This approach would be acceptable

because the races would be divided up by grade level in order to keep the age aspect

fair and to eliminate a 2nd grader having to race a 6th grader. With this fair field

approach the goals of winning for a student is more realistic and eliminates the

unfairness.

Spiker, Ted. "The Key to Making Your Kid a Star Athlete: Back off." ​Time​, 17 Feb. 2015,

www.time.com/3707641/child-star-athletes-sports-parenting/.​ Accessed 28 Nov.

2017.

In this article,Spicer explains his idea of more play, less pressure and how as coaches

and supporters we should learn to clap and encourage, not correct at a young age. He

then goes on about how the best way to ensure you kids will grow up loving the sport

rather than dreading going to practice every other day is to simply let them have fun.

Let the kids have fun, make mistakes while the partner works on being joyful and full

of encouragement for them being out there. After establishing that sports at a young

age is meant to be more fun over more pressure to be perfect,the elementary track

meet would be advertised as a fun light competition event with rewards for the top 3.
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It supports my idea that it will be hyped up as a fun event for all kids to come without

the expectation of all winning but much rather just to be introduced and learn the

sport of running in a fun lighthearted way.