It's no surprise that sports can greatly benefit a child physically, psychologically, and socially. A 2008 Women's Sports Foundation Research Report concluded that children’s athletic participation is also associated with increased levels of family satisfaction, great achievement in study, and an overall better quality of life for children. And a study published in last month’s American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that kids who are active at age 5 wind up with less body fat at ages 8 and 11.

But one hotly debated discussion focuses on the kinds of sports kids should play, with parents mistakenly thinking, "Lizzie is so quiet, we should let her join in basketball and soccer to try to get her to open up." But increasingly, experts are suggesting the healthier instinct (直觉) might be, "Lizzie is so quiet. Maybe we should see if she likes playing with a big team like softball or if she likes ballet or swimming, where she can work more on her own terms."

“Participation in any sport is going to provide kids with life skills----the ability to focus and to concentrate, the ability to handle pressure in tough situations, the ability to stay calm when things aren't going just right,’’ explains Orlando-based youth sports psychology expert Patrick Cohn. Those lessons will carry over into future, non-sports attempts.

Team sports certainly offer benefits not as easily obtained via individual activities, as players leant how to communicate and work with others, and there’s the potential to develop leadership abilities. Team sports also help kids develop their social identity. Our sense of worth is developed through what we achieve and a sense of belonging.

Individual sports offer unique advantages, too, like developing a child’s sense of independence. “Hero, you don’t depend upon teammates," says Cohn. "You take full responsibility, whether you do well or perform poorly." Many of Cohn’s young clients complain about pressure from team mates or coaches to make zero mistakes or carry more of the team than they may want to; these kids may enjoy a solo sport like tennis or gymnastics.

Individual activities keep kids away from comparing themselves to the best players on the team, a habit that does little to help confidence levels. Instead, it encourages them to compare their skills to their own past performances. With individual sports like swimming or track, it’s easier for the child to participate on his own, at his leisure(闲暇), without having to round up a bunch of like-minded peers.

Above all, while some children enjoy the excitement of competition, others are more likely to benefit from the freedom of individual sports, and finding the right balance can be necessary for children’s enjoyment. What parents think is encouragement, children often consider as pressure. So try to understand what they want from sports.

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Team sports and individual sports

Sports benefit

children

• Sports can greatly benefit children physically, psychologically, and socially.

• Sports are associated with increased levels of family satisfaction, 1. achievement and better quality of life for children.

2. ideas

• Parents usually want their children to lake part in the team sports which don’t 3.their children’s character.

• Experts think that any sport will 4. children to focus, handle pressure, stay calm when things are going 5..

Team sports

• Children can learn how to communicate and work with others.

• Children will have the potential to develop leadership abilities.

• Children will develop their social 6..

Individual sports

• Individual sports may help develop children’s sense of independence and 7..

• Children tend to compare their skills to their own past performances and are likely to 8. comparing themselves with the best players.

• Individual sports also seem to be more 9. to children.

Conclusion

• Finding the right balance is a 10. for children’s enjoyment.

• Parents should try to understand what their children really want from sports.

Thinking about a future career cm bung a lei of stress.1.This cuts up the question into workable issues that you and your child can enjoy dealing with throughout their childhood years.Here's how:

In your child’s lift, there are times when they are given the opportunity to see and/or diacuss a certain career Schools have Career Day. an aunt or uncle talks about what they do for a living or your child's youth group goes on a trip to a hospital und talks to the staff there.2.

When your Child shows interest in a certain career. you should do some research. Then, you can offer your child some information on that job and related jobs.3.It is a wondertul the online resoure.

Help your Child weigh the pros and cons for his or her different career interests. Encourage your child to narrow(缩小)the cboice down to five at the most.

4. This is a good time to begin ordering in college and technical school lists. Use the lists and any other information you have found as an ice breaker for more converasations with your child.

5. Make this a clear message.Teach your child that part of be ing independent is knowing when and who to lead on,trust and respect.

A.Do you fed you have open communication with your child?

B.The Occupational Oudook Handbook gives you what schooling is needed.

C. The final decision lies with your child, but you do have the right to have input.

D. Choosing the right career is one of die mm important decisions your child will make in life.

E. Figure out the path your child would have to take to obtain the schooling, for his career choices.

F. Each of these nines is an opportunity for you to ask your child what he thought of those jobs or that field of work.

G. Parents need to learn to help their child conquer this great question by dropping seeds of conversation as time goes by Bud watch them grow into ideas.

I was 20 years old when my mother passed away.It was the first real blow that life had dealt me,and I thought I would never recover.Then,by the time the following spring came,the pain was almost bearable and again I could find pleasure in the miraculous reward of nature.

At first,I went to the cemetery with trepidation.But then,amazingly,by tending her grave and decorating it with flowers,I was ridding myself of the painful memories.

The years passed.I moved from Kaposvar,Hungary,the town where I had been born and had spent my youth.So did my siblings.We only came together on feast days,especially on All Souls’ Day in the cemetery.

Father lived with me for many years,to a ripe old age.Now that he,too,rests beneath the white marble stone,I go even more eagerly to the cemetery.While I tend my parents’ grave site,again I am with them in thought.

One day I noticed a modest grave site behind my parents’ plot.It lay among the magnificent granite and marble markers of the other graves,its very simplicity calling attention to itself.Ivy(常春藤) had covered the site and its only decoration was a simple wooden cross on which was written in copper letters a name,and that she lived 22 years.Whenever I went by,the plot and its surroundings looked cared for and neat,and each time I felt curious about this mysterious woman who had lived all of 22 years.

Once I saw an elderly man leaving from there.I concluded that perhaps he had come to visit his wife.In 1996 I was preparing for All Souls’ Day in the cemetery when again I caught sight of him,tending the grave.Tall,somewhat bent,he was well passed middle age.We nodded to each other and continued our work.Occasionally I stole a glance at my neighbor.When I noticed that he hadn’t got the tools for a proper cleanup,I offered him mine,which he gratefully accepted.After this,it seemed only natural to engage him in conversation.I asked him whose grave it was.This was his answer:

“My mother’s.She died young,in 1912 when I was only a year?and?a half old.I really never knew her.I made her that cross and the copper letters.”

Then he went on:“No one comes to visit this grave but me because I was her only child.She died of pneumonia.My father remarried and my stepmother only cared for her own children.So then I always came here to my mother,whether in sadness or in joy.Later,life took me far afield,but I never forgot this grave.For me it was the same as the family home is for others.I always came home here.”

“With the years passing,it is getting more difficult for me to come,but as long as my legs will carry me,at least twice a year I visit my mother.I’m in my 80s,so who knows how long I can still make it.”

In stunned silence I listened.Tears clouded my eyes as I realized that I had never seen such boundless love.How much easier is my lot,I thought,for at any moment I can reach into my storehouse of memories and draw out the joyful or sad vignettes(小插图) that bind me to my parents with a thousand threads.What memories might this kindly old gentleman harbor?Perhaps a face from an ancient faded photograph of his mother.

What a great attachment throughout his long life must have led him back again and again to the resting place of that young woman whose motherly love he could never truly savor(尝到),only forever feels its enormous lack.

We said good?bye.I was deeply moved because I knew that I had been given a great gift.I had been allowed a glimpse of the royal and long?lasting affection that bound a simple and noble?hearted man to his mother.I decided I would tend the grave together with that of my parents,where,finally,the aged child will have met his youthful mother.

1.All Souls’ Day is a feast day .

A. to visit the cemetery and memorize the dead

B. for families to get together in the cemetery

C. to give gifts to family members

D. for daughters and sons to memorize their parents

2.From the passage,we know .

A. the author’s mother died young and her father,too

B. the author’s mother was dead while her father enjoyed a long life

C. the man’s mother died very young before he was born

D. the author’s father lived long while the man’s mother died very young

3.The underlined words “calling attention to itself” in the 5th paragraph mean .

A. desiring to be paid attention to

B. making it easily noticed

C. too modest to be noticed

D. calling itself to draw others’ attention

4.The author stole a glance at her neighbor because .

A. they were living in the same neighborhood

B. the man was tall and straight,well passed middle age

C. she was wondering about the dead young lady’s story

D. she knew the dead in the grave was the man’s mother

5.From Paragraph 10 we can conclude that .

A. the author lived near the cemetery and can visit her parents at any time

B. the poor gentleman had hardly any memory of his dear mother’s love

C. the author is bound to her parents with threads

D. the gentleman comes back “home” whenever he wants to

6.What message is conveyed in the passage?

A. Love is a length of thread to bind mother and children together.

B. Mother needs love from her children even if she is dead.

C. Parents’ love is always royal and long?lasting to children.

D. Mother’s love can be a boundless gift to their children.

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