Let Your Children Make Their Own Decisions

In addition, the running-induced psychological changes will also benefit young people as adults. My self-confidence will be largely increased if I know that I only run slower than a few people in my early years. When a teenager participates in a race, he makes a sprint for a hundred yard in the remaining time and catch up a strong adult in his twenty-five, it will make him have a rare sense of equality. Roger Bannister wrote that the period of adolescence always brings psychological conflict and trepidation, over the years, if a boy's body and mind are tested through hard activities, he may bound to bear the experience more easily. It was also noted that this was Roger Bannister's advice in the past decades. If he writes this article now, he will undoubtedly include girls as boys.

Even in the period before puberty, it is also a very appropriate time for running. One day in the fall, I went to New York City's north of Franklinite Park to watch the Junior National Cross Country Championships of the same age. There were three thousand four hundred and twenty-nine participants of boys and girls, some of which were only six years old. They walked along wide grassland on the runway and run an ace of one and a half miles. They were divided into groups, each group with a difference of two years. They rush wildly as a group of bee and pick up on a batch. When they start to run, first of all, is six and seven years old girls, then is eight and nine years old girls, lined down, up to the sixteenth and seventeenth-year-old boy. The result of the game makes people feel surprised.

There is a girl who belongs to the most immature group, run over the full distance with less than seven and a half minutes per mile. In the same age group, a boy costs ten minutes and eighteen seconds to go all the way. His speed was much faster than many adults. Comparing to their running speed, their emotions worth more noting. When children were in the final few yards of the sprint, their face expressions were the same as you saw in the international competitions, liked the runner's face, showing a pair of struggling expression. But after they crossed the finishing line, they would immediately resume the smile and happy mood as if they had the outdoor activities for the whole day.

Notwithstanding the above evidence, some parents still worry that their children are too young to run, hard running will make themselves hurt. They may also worry about the recent Duke University event, which is held for the six to ten months babies called twenty-yard dash toward the mother. In order to protect my own children, I seek advice from doctors and physiologist; ask for their opinions on such things.