Please read earnestly this well written paper on "Positive Youth Development Through Sports" by eminent sports researchers.
Youth is our future, and we need to inculcate our youths with positive values through sports from an early age.
There is an old and wise maxim that says " A Rich Nation Is A Nation That Consist Of Healthy People".
Let's work together in creating a beautiful and rich,Malaysia.
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Youth sport has the potential to accomplish three important objectives in children’s development.
(Cote and Fraser-Thomas 2007).
First, sport programs can provide youth with opportunities to be physically active, which in turn lead to improved physical health.
Second, youth sport programs have long been considered important to youth’s psycho social development, providing opportunities to learn important life skills such as cooperation, discipline, leadership, and self control
Third, youth sport programs are critical for the learning of motor skills; these motor skills serve as a foundation for recreational adult sport participants as well as future national sport stars.
Currently, youth sport programs are not producing outstanding results in any of these three objective areas.
For example, child obesity rates in developed
nations are high (e.g. Tremblay et al. 2002), while problem behaviors such as drug use and delinquency are on the rise among youth (e.g. Health Canada 2004).
Further, attrition rates from youth sport programs are extremely high during adolescence, with an estimated one-third of all participants between 10 and 17 years of age withdrawing from sport programs every year (Gould 1987), leading sport psychology researchers to identify dropout as an area of concern (Brustad etal. 2001).
In this chapter, we outline some of the current youth sport research and discuss youth sport participation within a broader integrated developmental and ecological model.
Elaborated further in Positive Youth Development Through Sports in three parts.
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