I read over my next article, “Parents Behaving Badly? The relationship between the sportsman ship of adults in youth basketball games,” and although this was a pretty specific topic, it had some good ideas. In this article, there was a study conducted on different individuals in the sport environment. Usually childhood sports are supposed to increase sportsmanship, and they are meant to build character and give kids good social skills. In this study researches wanted to see the effect on the the sportsmanship with adults present, whether it was parents or coaches. The research basically tells us that if the sport administrator is not doing his or her job, then the child is not gaining anything from his sport. The administrator, or coach, must have good sportsmanship or the athlete most likely will not. It seems that the child will always look up to the adult with great impact in their life, even if it is not a parent. The study has also found this to be true with things such as smoking, alcohol use, and antisocial behaviors. This article does not truely focus on the questions I was initially asking about controlling parents, but it gives me an idea about why the children will allow his or her parent to act like that. Adults play a huge role in children’s life, and children are lead to believe that if the adult wants to run his or her children’s life, then they are allowed to. This thought continues as the child grows into a teen and sometimes an adult. In some cases, if this person is not told otherwise, they can be lead to believe that their parent is always right.
Arthur-Banning, Skye, et al. "Parents Behaving Badly? The Relationship between the Sportsmanship Behaviors of Adults and Athletes in Youth Basketball Games." Journal of Sport Behavior 32.1 (2009): 3-18. Academic Search Alumni Edition. EBSCO. Web. 7 Oct. 2010.
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