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Kalea Ibarra
Ms.Marlowe
Expo R/W P1
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
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
Braff, Danielle. "Awarding Kids for Participation Isn’t Best Way to Build Confidence."
www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/parenting/sc-children-confidence-family-1101-20
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
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
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
Lynch, Grace Hwang. "Should You Give Kids Rewards?" PBS Parents,
www.pbs.org/parents/special/article-finance-should-you-give-kids-rewards.html.
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
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,
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