How Sports Benefit Youth and Young Children
             Sports and Athletics can benefit young children because sports and athletics offer these young children several different avenues to becoming more physically, mentally, and spiritually tough. By participating in athletics youth learn to be reliant on a team effort, not only does this build leadership skills but it also builds up the child's self esteem. Sports and athletics also helps to build the participants mental, physical, and emotional awareness. By becoming more aware of oneself through sports and athletic one can grow to levels of emotional matureness that are not readily accessible to those of whom do not participate in sports and athletics.
             Physical skills are peaked when participating in sports and athletics. When a person is physically fit, athletic skills are normally above and beyond what they would normally be with out them. Mentally, sports and athletics helps to strengthen the mind, helping people to go farther mentally then they thought would ever be possible. It is proven that people that play sports and become involved with clubs and other groups do better in school. It also allows people to gain recognition in their particular sport.
             Physical play is during infancy and early childhood is central to the development of social and emotional competence. Researchers have reported that children who engage in more physical play with their parents exhibited greater enjoyment during play sessions, were more aware of their emotions, had greater self-esteem and were more popular with their peers.
             These are a valuable social skills that are learned during athletics and socially athletic settings.
             Like many other things youth can learn in athletics, these social skills can be converted and used in real world situations. "Children learn quickly through watching the responses of their parents, that certain behaviors make their parents smile and laugh wh...