Sports and Culture: Do Sports Help Kids Become Better People? Many parents' major concern today is that their children "stay ahead of the pack", and keep "an edge" over the competition. For this reason, schools are filled with children in enriched and accelerated programs. Children are being started in competitive sports like swimming, basketball, golf and tennis at a very early age. Being exposed to such competitiveness and pressure, how does this effect a child …showed first 75 words of 2051 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2051 total…fe and is influential in all areas of our society. They help our nation and communities economically, socially, and physically. I believe that sport, in their own without the influences of coaches and parents, do indeed make "better" people out of our children. Sports involve both victory and defeat, providing people with opportunities to experience success and failure. These lessons of success and failure are unique, valuable, and everlasting to our children and our society.