I understand and appreciate parents concerns about sports injuries to kids – especially, head traumas ….BUT… trying to wrap a protective bubble around a kid is just plain ridiculous !
Injuries will happen, regardless of whether the sport is a contact or noncontact one. I had a cousin ( an Olympic contender ) become a paraplegic due to an accident on the uneven parallel bars. Another friend, had serious neurological damage from a head injury while competitively diving.
Sensible precautions and safety monitoring keep most kids safe playing sports. A kid’s more likely to sustain an injury playing non-organized sports than in supervised competition.
My biggest gripe and fear has to do with the parents who push their kids beyond the child’s limits – either hopes of the kid getting a scholarship to college in later life, or because the parent wants the kid to be some perverse extension of the parent’s own ego.
I understand and appreciate parents concerns about sports injuries to kids – especially, head traumas ….BUT… trying to wrap a protective bubble around a kid is just plain ridiculous !
Injuries will happen, regardless of whether the sport is a contact or noncontact one. I had a cousin ( an Olympic contender ) become a paraplegic due to an accident on the uneven parallel bars. Another friend, had serious neurological damage from a head injury while competitively diving.
Sensible precautions and safety monitoring keep most kids safe playing sports. A kid’s more likely to sustain an injury playing non-organized sports than in supervised competition.
My biggest gripe and fear has to do with the parents who push their kids beyond the child’s limits – either hopes of the kid getting a scholarship to college in later life, or because the parent wants the kid to be some perverse extension of the parent’s own ego.