shoeking2101
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Other activities can do this as well. Not sure why sports needs to be the one that people want to force their kids to do.
I'm weary of "making" kids play sports unless it's a really young age where they barely know what's going on. My pops tried to make me play football in 3rd grade even though the team was filled with dudes that I didn't click with. Many of those dudes are in jail now, and I guess I wasn't cool enough to fit in with that type of crowd. I got picked on and quit after the first practice. Obviously, looking back the logical step would be to introduce me to a different sport, but that mentality of forcing a kid to play a sport is something I don't agree with.
In my opinion, the better idea is to find out what your children are interested in and develop those interests through a social outlet with other like minded kids. Your kid likes music, asks if he wants to join a band. He likes art, have him join the art club. Sports are not the cure all, especially if you limit it to football and basketball.
I agree with you because at the end of it all, the sport isn't what's most important here. It's the benefits from it, which comes from a myriad of places, not limited to sports.
Also, I only said Basketball and Football because I played basketball all the way through to college, and all my friends either played fball and basketball, and from MY experiences, (surely this isn't meant to be anything more than my personal anecdote about this) the people in HS, college, that got laid the most as far as sports players were concerned, were basketball and Football players. Then again, young black kids don't play or know anything about Baseball, or any other sport for that matter besides Hoops, and fball.