Competition In Children

Children competing in a sport are a great thing. Forcing a child to compete even though they do not want to is not. Competition overall is a great thing and keeps us alive. Charles Darwin even proved it by the theory of evolution, that survival is the survival of the fittest. This means that we live and compete off of competition.  Overall we should competition is a good thing to have, allows us to live but there is a fine line to when to start children to compete in sports. I believe that the age of 8 is a good age to start to compete in sports. I believe that at this age they are mature to understand that competition is good and that it, competition, will help keep kids get involved in sports keeping them active. It is crossing the line when they are under “age” or do not want to participate in sports. At that young of age it is like dog fighting, and as a parent you are doing to brag and show off your child to prove you are the best. This young of an age isn't the kid competing and having fun but the parents showing that they have the best most athletic child. Overall the competition of child is a good in the fact that it keeps kids involved in athletics but under “age” is a bad greedy competition of parents more than it is the of the kids.