Sports is one of the most popular activities in today's world. It improves motor skills through physical activity and regulates mental, spiritual and social behaviors. It is also a biological, pedagogical and social endeavor that activates competition and motivation within certain rules. It also plays a role in the development of the personality and shaping of the character of children who are involved in or spectators of a branch of sports.
Increasing the child's self-confidence, becoming a social person, developing the ability to think practically, being healthy physically and spiritually as well as mentally. It has a significant impact on the
Children are generally interested in sports to have fun, get excited, ensure unity, develop strength and acquire new skills. The importance and place of football among sports branches played today is indisputable. Although there are nearly 20 sports played with a ball in the world today, the most popular sport when considering the ball game is football.
The effects of football on children
Continuously. When children engage in effort and expectation such as having to win, sometimes sports can be perceived as a fight for life rather than a game. Like every behavior exhibited in the presence of the child, supporting a team, supporting a team, being a fan, the parent's attitudes and behaviors while watching the match, the sentences uttered while chatting about football, the biased/neutral comments made at the end of the match, lead to the child's attitude towards supporting a team, supporting a team, and the opposing team and its audience. will be indicative and decisive.
However, sports include loving, demanding one's rights and not being violated, sharing, competing, obeying the rules, accepting winning and losing, expressing primitive impulses in ways accepted by society, participating in new social environments, making new friends, and feeling pleasure. . Pleasure is seen in both sports players and spectators. Sports shape character, team sports teach cooperation, individual sports develop personal discipline and teach how to discharge aggressive impulses naturally and in accordance with social rules.
The concepts of supporting a team, supporting, being a fan are explained It is also related to the sense of belonging in moments. At a younger age, children become interested in sports, especially boys, in football. Watching and going to matches with a role model (mostly the father) is a very enjoyable and entertaining activity for the child.
For the child, the parents are omnipotent
For the child, the parents are omnipotent. In other words, it means complete and absolute power, and it perceives and reflects the parents as omnipotent people. Whatever the parents do, they accept without question. The idea that parents can make mistakes and mistakes, like every other person, begins in adolescence. The boy imitates his father, wants to be like him and thinks that the more he imitates his father's behavior, the more he will be approved/appreciated.
The effect(s) that football in particular and sports in general are expected to have on the child are: belonging to a group that will evaluate the child's energy positively, showing behavior within the group, cooperating, obeying the rules, being able to understand winning and losing, and respecting oneself and one's friends. hearing, gaining self-confidence, being physiologically healthy, etc. is to develop values. While we want them to acquire these positive behaviors, witnessing violent incidents in sports environments may lead to a different perception of sports. Playing football, watching it, supporting a team, being a fan is not a bad thing.
How can we prevent fanaticism and hooliganism?
It is important how you convey the meaning of supporting a team to the child. If you portray the opposing team as consisting of different colors, competing for similar goals, and its fans as individuals who support their own team and desire its success, just like us, there will be no problems. Otherwise, young people who are oppressed by their fathers at home, outside in the circle of friends, at school, in sports fields and other areas, who are not understood and cannot express themselves, can often resort to aggression as a way of expressing themselves, which can cause serious problems in schools, sports activity areas or other areas of education. .
Even if your child's favorite team is not the same as yours, there is a common bond that you can have fun with. You should be careful about your interactions. Remember that children develop by taking role models. If your child wants to support a different team for any reason (such as the jersey of his favorite color, the team player he takes as a role model, the success of the team at that time), you should respect him.
While watching the match together, your child's favorite team and the opposing team should be respected. Choose your sentences carefully in your comments about the team, explain and teach that teamwork and competition are a matter of respect and sportsmanship.
Only in this way can we prevent fanaticism and hooliganism.
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