Comments on: Team Participation May Increase Substance Use Among Teens

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:25:00 +0000

Just because your kids are part of a team does not lead to any guarantee that they won’t be involved in drugs or other poor choice behaviors
You still have to be careful about the other kids that you let your own kids hang out with

By: S Styris

S Styris — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:35:19 +0000

Well any team activity can be a breeding ground for positivity as well as negativity..It depends on what the youngsters want to do..You can have a group of youngsters playing some sport as a tea give each other tips on fitness and helping each other and you could have the same group encouraging and exploring drug usage amongst themselves..It really cannot be a thumb rule-it changes with the individual’s in the group.

By: Scot

Scot — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:23:16 +0000

The peer pressure felt even among teammates was always way more powerful to me than that that I faced with other students that I didn’t play sports with. I know that it was because we all spent a lot of time together and got to know each other’s weaknesses in a way that you don’t really experience with kids that you don’t spend as much time with. Being a team player only adds to the pressures that you feel in high school. You want to be a team player and not let your frineds down, and you want to be a part of the crowd that’s “in” and cool. What better way to do that than to be a big athlete and party hard? That’s what we all did, anyway.

By: gabe

gabe — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:29:01 +0000

I saw an article somewhere about this very thing just yeaterday. If I recall correctly it said that the kids who played soccer and lacrosse did not have as many of these kinds of problems- that they were good in school and rarelt got into the same kinds of social and academic trouble that high school basketball and football players encountered.

By: Grayson

Grayson — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:19:21 +0000

What?!? This goes against what I think so many of us parents have always thought about being a part of a team sport.

I was always under the impression that being a part of a team encouraged better behavior in schools and better grades. I know that sometimes poor behavior takes place but its like that whether you play team sports or not.

But I thought that the idea of the team sports is to encourage more responsibility and a brotherhood among players, not just more peers to get in trouble with.