Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Role Models
I think Barkley's arguement can be positive and negative in a way. It's a positive thing because who wouldn't want to look up to their parents who raised them since they were little kids, and look up to them as their role model. It can be put in a negative way because Barkley at that time was probably one of the most dominant players in the league and many people look at him as a role model because they want to be like that a good athlete. You can't just go off of a person's ability to do something good, and they be considered your role model, because you don't know what that person does on his or her day to day life. Those things can be good or bad. I believe not all athletes are role models because how some of them conduct themselves on and off what he or she is doing. A role model to me is a person who can show good leadership and can show what's right and what's wrong to follow, but most younger kids look at what athletes demostrate athletic wise, because they want to do the same type of things that person is doing. So they look up to them as a role model.
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I agree with Willie in the sense that maybe our perspective as to what a role model should stand for truly is. Kids look up to athletes, much of the time, because of their abilities, not because of their actions. In this sense, it is okay for a child to have an athlete who has had a proven trail of success be a role model but it must be pointed out by the parents if there are any actions that this athlete has done in a negative fashion that it is unacceptable to copy for a child.
ReplyDeleteGoing off of this, it may be a better idea to emphasize to young children that athletes should viewed as "role models" only in the dimension of athletics. What I mean by this is, if somebody is very successful at their sport, one can usually improve their abilities by modeling their play/training/whatever after that person. But just because they are the best at what they do on the field obviously doesn't mean they are the best person off the field.
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